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Robert Aickman

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 27, 1914

Died

February 26, 1981

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. ...more

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Robert Aickman’s books

Average rating: 3.96 · 14,564 ratings · 1,683 reviews · 139 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories 3.98 avg rating — 2,979 ratings — published 1974 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 1,736 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 1,447 ratings — published 1964 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.17 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Inner Room by Robert Aickman, R.B. Russell (Contributor), Stephen J. Clark (Illustrator) 3.63 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman, Victoria Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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: Strange Stories 4.31 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Robert Aickman, David Tibet (Contributor), Ramsey Campbell (Contributor) 4.71 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.72 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1968 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.58 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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),

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3.68 avg rating — 416 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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“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”
― Robert Aickman, Painted Devils: Strange Stories

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“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust, so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and unlimited power in exchange for his soul. Modern man has accepted that bargain. . . .

I believe in what the Germans term Ehrfurcht: reverence for things one cannot understand. Faust’s error was an aspiration to understand, and therefore master, things which, by God or by nature, are set beyond the human compass. He could only achieve this at the cost of making the achievement pointless. Once again, it is exactly what modern man has done.”
― Robert Aickman, The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: I

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What shall we read in July 2016?

Please vote for your favourite, but again, PLEASE ONLY VOTE IF YOU HAVE A GENUINE INTENTION TO READ AND DISCUSS THE BOOK WITH US.

Books are listed in alphabetical order of author.
Polling will close on Sunday night.

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

8 votes, 32.0%

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

7 votes, 28.0%

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories by Robert Aickman

3 votes, 12.0%

The Glass of Time by Michael Cox

3 votes, 12.0%

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2 votes, 8.0%

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

2 votes, 8.0%

25 total votes

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