Recent Interest
The most detailed biographical and critical study is Gary William Crawford's Robert Aickman: An Introduction (Gothic Press, 2003). Crawford has also compiled an online database of works about Aickman. David Bolton's Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved (Methuen, 1990) contains a great deal of material about Aickman, including several photographs of him, and the final chapter is devoted to him. Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002) gives an account of her relationship with him.
Philip Challinor has brought together eight critical essays on Aickman's stories in the chapbook Akin to Poetry (Gothic Press, 2010). Three further essays were collected in Gary William Crawford's Gothic Press chapbook Insufficient Answers (2012). A critical essay on Aickman's fiction appears in S.T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001). Articles, essays and papers by other authors have appeared on the website Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, and in the journals Studies in Weird Fiction (published by Necronomicon Press), All Hallows (published by the Ghost Story Society), Studies in the Fantastic, Supernatural Tales and Wormwood.
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