Robert Aickman

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born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 27, 1914

died

February 26, 1981

gender

male

genre

Horror, Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature

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Author of: close to 50 "strange stories" in the weird-tale and ghost-story traditions, two novels (The Late Breakfasters and The Model), two volumes of memoir (The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill), and two books on the canals of England (Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways).

Co-founder and longtime president of the Inland Waterways Association, an organization that in the middle of the 20th century restored a great part of England's deteriorating system of canals, now a major draw for recreation nationally and for tourism internationally.

Grandson of author Richard Marsh.

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Robert Aickman's Books

Average rating: 4.04 · 4,565 ratings · 357 reviews · 63 distinct works · Similar authors

	Cold Hand in Mine 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman, Peter Straub (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Painted Devils 4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 118 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: I 4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unsettled Dust 4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sub Rosa 4.86 of 5 stars 4.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: II 4.9 of 5 stars 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Model 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Entries by Robert Aickman, Glen Cavaliero (Editor), Stephen J. Clark (Illustrator) 4.7 of 5 stars 4.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Attempted Rescue 4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1966	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert Aickman

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (17 books)
by Robert Aickman (Editor), Joseph Payne Brennan (Contributor), Davis Grubb (Contributor), Gerald Bullett (Contributor), John Keir Cross (Contributor), Ralph Adams Cram (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor), A.E. Coppard (Contributor) , more…
3.906779661016949 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 118 ratings

Quotes by Robert Aickman

“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
― Robert Aickman

tags: time

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“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”
― Robert Aickman, The Unsettled Dust

tags: mankind, waste

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“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
― Robert Aickman, The Attempted Rescue

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