Robert Aickman

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born

June 27, 1914 in London, The United Kingdom

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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Books by Robert Aickman

Average rating: 4.06 · 2,294 ratings · 206 reviews · 58 distinct works

	Cold Hand in Mine 4.35 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman, Peter Straub (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.38 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Painted Devils: Strange Stories 4.41 avg rating — 78 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman 4.96 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Unsettled Dust 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Model 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sub Rosa 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Attempted Rescue 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman (Editor/ contributor), L.P. Hartley (Contributor), Richard Middleton (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Powers of Darkness 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	My rating:

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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...

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Quotes by Robert Aickman

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

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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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“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”
― Robert Aickman

tags: science

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