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Robert Aickman - An Appreciation

Created by Barb Yanney, this website, for a while lost in cyberspace, has returned. It is the oldest and best single site devoted to Aickman.  There are excellent essays by Philip Challinor, Adam Walter, Jim Rockhill, and others.  Indispensible.

Peedeel's Blog » Robert Aickman Tag Feed

Blog articles about Aickman.

Facebook | Robert Aickman

The Facebook page devoted to Aickman.

Peter A Leonard - Robert Aickman and The Late Breakfasters

An excellent blog article on the novel.  Offers detailed commentary on the novel chapter by chapter.  Also provides extensive research into the allusions that Aickman utilizes in the novel.  May very well may be the best commentary yet.

Peter A Leonard - Joyce, Robert Aickman & the Muse

A brief, amusing, yet grim, article.

Robert Aickman » A Pictorial Bibliography

An old Aickman site that has not been updated in some time.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/robert-aickman

An online bibliography of primary materials.

Faber & Faber : Robert Aickman

The page in the Faber online catalog that lists the new Aickman editions from Faber.

Robert Aickman: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article

A general information site.

BGSU :: Center for Archival Collections :: Center for Archival Collections

A site about the Aickman papers housed at Bowling Green State University.

First editions by Aickman available from L.W. Currey Bookseller

Night Shade Message Boards: We Are For The Dark

A discussion of the collection.

Borley Rectory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A page on the famous reputedly haunted Borley Rectory, where Aickman spent nights with his wife Ray in the 1940's.

Vampire Library of Darkness

A discussion of Cold Hand in Mine that discusses the vampire tale "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal."

Supernatural Fiction Database, Robert Aickman

A bibliography of major works with covers shown.

Cynthia Asquith « The Other Pans People.

A discussion group touching on the famous "Ghost Book" anthologies edited by Cynthia Asquith in which Aickman appeared.

The Haunted Bibliophile- Works of Robert Aickman.

A brief bibliography.  Somewhat dated.

Robert Aickman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A short biographical and bibliographical entry.

British Horror Anthology Hell - Robert Aickman

An online discussion group.

Robert_Aickman | Google Groups

Another Aickman discussion program.

Robert Aickman - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre.

A Spanish language encyclopedia article.

Internet Book List :: Author Information: Robert Aickman

A brief, selective primary bibliography.

Robert Aickman

Films based on Aickman's works.

SciFan: Writer: Robert Aickman (bibliography, books, series, web links)

A brief, selective bibliography.

DarkEcho Review: ROBERT AICKMAN: AN INTRODUCTION Gary William Crawford<BR>

A review of my book on Aickman. Gary Crawford.

Random Drive-By Writing Thoughts

A blog with essays on Cold Hand in Mine and The Wine-Dark Sea.

ROBERT AICKMAN.

Information on this British waterways website.

Robert Aickman - Author

Brief mentions of three Aickman books.

Robert Aickman Biography and Summary

This site can access for a fee an essay on Aickman in the print volume The Dictionary of Literary Biography.

HELLNOTES » Blog Archive » Ron Breznay's Masters of Horror: Robert Aickman

A brief biographical and critical essay.

Robert Aickman Bibliography of First Editions at Bookseller World

A brief booksellers bibliography and essay.

Collector Cafe - Register

A brief essay on Aickman that invites responses.

Robert Aickman : Oxford Biography Index entry

A downloadable entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for a fee.  750 words with portrait.

Robert Aickman - Fontana Ghost 5 « Encyclopedia Phantasmagoria

A site devoted to the Fontana series edited by Aickman.

Giornale Nuovo: Into the Wood

A brief appreciation and discussion of the Aickman story.

((( Echo Studio ))) Ghost Stories

A site with an Aickman  photograph and brief essay,

Alison, Bill, and John Eatman.  The Weird Review: Fontana Great Ghosts.

A good discussion of the stories Aickman selected for the Fontana volumes he edited in the 1960's.

Allen, Michael. Grumpy Old Bookman: Robert Aickman

A brief, personal commentary on this blog. Mainly discusses The River Runs Uphill.

Crawford, Gary William.  The Infography about Robert Aickman (1914-1981)

A listing of important sources.

Crawford, Gary William.  "Approaches to Mystery:  The Numinous in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas and Robert Aickman's The Late Breakfasters."  Le Fanu Studies  LE FANU STUDIES 3.2 (Nov. 2008).

Compares the use of Rudolf Otto's ideas about the numinous two novels by Le Fanu and Aickman.  In Uncle Silas, the numinous is expressed in terms of good and evil and a religious crisis.  In Aickman's The Late Breakfasters, the numinous is expressed as an existential crisis.  Concludes with the female protagonists's differing ideas of themselves as women.

Fonseca, Tony.  Master of the Strange.

A review of the Tartarus edition of Aickman's short fiction.

Hood, Robert. Poetics of Horror.

Mentions Aickman and quotes passages from his works.

Jones, Darryl.  "Review of Crawford's Book on Aickman."  Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies: Book Reviews Issue 3

Joshi, S. T. Rev. of Robert Aickman: An Introduction.  Necropsy.  Joshi

Kennet, Rick. Fontana's "Great Ghost Stories" Series.

A useful commentary on this series, the first eight of which were edited by Aickman.

Kennet, Rick.  The Ghost Book Series.

A bibliography of Cynthia Asquith's Ghost Book anthologies, in which Aickman appeared.

Ligotti, Thomas. Online discussion of Aickman. Robert Aickman - Page 5 - The Nightmare Network


Wondolowski, Rupert. "'Somewhere in the Back of Beyond':  The Sublimely Strange Stories of Robert Aickman."  Imprints Literary Supplement 1999: Imprints Literary Supplement

A good general appreciation that notes the similarities to Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.