Just delivered my article for
Robert Aickman: A Centenary Tribute. It's a brief article titled
Robert Aickman Comes to FantasyCon. Included in it is a scanned copy of the letter of acceptance from Robert Aickman to be Guest of Honour at 1976's FantasyCon 2 in Birmingham. We are trying to find any photographs of him at this convention, though so far without success.
The contents for the volume will be:
Introduction by S.T. Joshi
Foreword by Johnny Mains
ESSAYS T.E.D. Klein - On Meeting Aickman
Lisa Tuttle - On Nearly Meeting Aickman
John L. Probert - The Adaptations
Hugh Lamb - Obituaries and Waterways
Jeremy Dyson - *untitled*
Roger Clarke - 'The Cicerones'
Reece Shearsmith - Reading Aickman
Philip Challinor- "Meeting Mr Millar" and "Letters from the Postman"
Richard Dalby - My friend, Robert Aickman
Sonia Rolt - Corrosion of a Friendship (about her husband L.T.C. Rolt)
David A. Riley - Robert Aickman Comes to Fantasycon
Douglas A. Anderson - The Film Reviewer
Johnny Mains - The Editor's Editor: Aickman and Fontana Ghosts
STORIESOriginal Stories by:
Adam Nevill
Pete Crowther
Lynda E. Rucker
Simon Stranzas
Robert Shearman
Conrad Williams
Mark Morris
Stephen Volk
Reggie Oliver