General Studies
Andriano, Joseph. Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1993.
Studies the single story "Ravissante" from a Jungian point of view. Sees the ghostly Madame A. as a castration figure for the narrator.
Bolton, David. Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved. London: Methuen, 1990.
A well-researched history of the Inland Waterways Association with much biographical information about Aickman.
De Mare, Eric. The Canals of England. London: Architectural Press, 1950.
A good background sorce for the British canals written by Aickman's friend, Eric de Mare.
Dingwall, Eric J., Kathleen M. Godney, and Trevor H. Hall. The Haunting of Borley Rectory. London: Duckworth, 1956.
Contains a few paragraphs about Aickman and his wife's spending in a night the reputedly haunted Borley Rectory. They had no supernatural experiences.
Haywood, Steve. Fruit Flies Like a Banana: England by Canal and Classic Car. Summersdale Publishers, 2004.
This is an earlier retitling of Haywood's other book below.
Haywood, Steve. One Man and a Narrowboat: Slowing Down Time on England's Waterways. Summersdale Publishers, 2009.
Personal, jaunty and entertaining narrative that discusses Aickman throughout. Also provides commentary about Elizabeth Jane Howard. An interesting book with a great deal of information about the waterways.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream: A Memoir. London: Macmillan, 2002.
Details Howard's affair with Aickman. Interesting biographical information.
Joshi, S.T. Classics and Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2009.
In this collection of short pieces by Joshi, Aickman is mentioned at several places throughout.
Joshi, S. T. The Modern Weird Tale. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
The chapter on Aickman is a slight revision of Joshi's article that appeared in Studies in Weird Fiction.
Mackersey, Ian. Tom Rolt and the Cressy Years. Cleobury, Mortimer, Shropshire: M&M Baldwin, 1991.
Contains some biographical information about Aickman.
Mendleson, Farah, and Edward James. A Short History of Fantasy. London: Middlesex University Press, 2009.
Mentions Elizabeth Jane Howard and Aickman's We are for the Dark and Aickman's anthology appearances.
Price, Harry. The End of Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England. London: Harrap, 1946.
A few pages are devoted to Aickman's stay at Borley Rectory with his wife and friends. Excerpts from Aickman's report to Harry Price are included.
Rolt, L.T.C. The Clouded Mirror. London: Penguin, 2009.
Reprints an excerpt from Landscape with Canals titled "Canal Crusade." Contains some information about Aickman.
Scott, Peter. The Eye of the Wind. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press of Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
Famous adventurer Peter Scott's biography, who writes of his one-time wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, who had an affair with Robert Aickman. Scott was a friend of Aickman and he worked with Aickman in the waterways campaign. He describes Aickman as "one of the most erudite of men and most excellent company."