Ramsey aickman biography
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Robert Aickman
British writer and conservationist (1914–1981)
Robert Aickman | |
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| Born | Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914-06-27)27 June 1914 London, England |
| Died | 26 February 1981(1981-02-26) (aged 66) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer, conservationist |
| Alma mater | Highgate School |
| Genre | Horror, Supernatural |
| Notable works | Cold Hand in Mine Sub Rosa "Ringing the Changes" The Late Breakfasters |
| Notable awards | World Fantasy Award |
| Spouse | Edith Ray Gregorson |
| Relatives | Richard Marsh (grandfather) |
Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".
The writer of his obituary in The Times, as quoted by Mike Ashley, said: "... his most outstanding and lasting achievement was as a writer of what he himself like to call 'strange tales.' He brought to these his immense knowledge of the occult, psychological insights and a richness of background and characterisation which rank his stories with those of M. R. James and Walter de l
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Alexander Glass on a new biography by R.B. Russell
Robert Aickman is not exactly a forgotten figure; collections of his most significant fiction were reissued by Faber & Faber in 2014: The Unsettled Dust, The Wine-Dark Sea, and Cold Hand in Mine. Other reprints have been published by Tartarus Press and New York Review Books Classics. Yet Aickman may be under-appreciated; certainly he himself seems to have thought so. R.B. Russell’s comprehensive Robert Aickman: A Biography (Tartarus Press, 2023) seeks to rectify that.
Aickman had written two autobiographies: The Attempted Rescue in 1966, and The River Runs Uphill, published posthumously in 1986. Russell draws on both, and on copious other sources, ranging from Aickman’s fiction itself to conversations with people who knew him. He can thus compensate for Aickman’s idiosyncrasies, odd omissions, and even odder inclusions; but Aickman’s life is peppered throughout with little unexplained details that would not have been out of place in his own eerie fiction, hinting – but only hinting – at some dark and sinister force operating just beyond the edge of perception.
Aickman was born in 1914. He maintained that his parents had had sex only once, on their honeymoon, and that his mother had wished for a da
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Aickman Biography
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