Which is apparently a big collection that released several of his best stories for the first time to american audience according to inside cover blurb. Robert aickman to be honoured with resurrection of horror. Available only with the simultaneous the collected strange stories of robert aickman, volume ii. Its aickmans second collection of tales and has no us counterpart. As a writer, aickman is best known for the 48 strange stories that were. Aug 02, 20 robert aickman didnt like to call his fiction ghost stories or even supernatural tales. Its aickman s second collection of tales and has no us counterpart. Robert aickmans cult horror books are being resurrected for.
Aickman was married to literary agent and childrens book author edith ray. The eighth fontana book of great ghost storie robert aickman. Expected edgewear, some have slight peeling of paper on bottom of spine. Robert aickman project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks.
The strange stories label also helps us place aickman in a broader. For my money the hospice my own personal gateway story represents aickman at his most unsettling, all the more so because it contains, on the surface, so little in the way of. Cold hand in mine is a fine collection of eight of robert aickmans utterly unique brand of strange stories so unique as to be difficult to describe. Includes stories by edward wellen, barry malzberg, michael bishop, joanne russ, joseph green, isaac asimov, robert young, gordon eklund, robert silverberg, lester del rey, robert aickman, jerry pournelle, richard lupoff, others. Collects all the stories from the books, we are for the dark, dark entries, powers of darkness, sub rosa, cold hand in mine, tales of love and. The collected strange stories, volumes i publication. Powers of darkness 1966 is a cherished book i found a few years ago at the newberry library book sale for two bucks.
As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as strange stories. Robert aickman 19141981 was the grandson of richard marsh, a leading victorian novelist of the occult. Master of the modern strange tale, novelist, critic, editor, literary agent and saviour of the british waterways, robert aickman 19141981 is best known as one of the most accomplished writers of ghost stories of the twentieth century. Robert aickman didnt like to call his fiction ghost stories or even supernatural tales. Jan 01, 2001 buy the collected strange stories of robert aickman. Dark entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including the classic story ringing the changes.
The collected strange stories in two volumes by aickman, robert. Fans of aickman tend to have a soft spot for the first of his stories they encountered, the one which ushered them into the heady territory of aickmanland. What aickman called his strange stories tell of landscapes morphing into new shapes, while time is twisted or suspended. Mar 23, 2016 this documentary explores and provides new insights into the life and writing of british author robert aickman 19141981, with special reference to his celebrated strange stories modern. The collected strange stories of robert aickman book. Oct 07, 2011 i have had the honor of reading my first two stories of by aickman. Limted to 500 copies, this being one of 30 deluxe copies though not recorded as such in r.
Cover art by steven stapleton collects all of the authors strange tales in 2 vols. The strange horrors of robert aickman electric literature. The first publication of aickmans eight collections tartarus did subsequently publish an. Publisher website dates reprinting to 2000, but page says 2001. The collected strange stories of robert aickman vols. Nowhere is this more so than in the case of robert aickman, until recently a lesserknown figure but surely one of weird fictions most remarkable practitioners. I have had the honor of reading my first two stories of by aickman. Robert fordyce aickman 27 june 1914 26 february 1981 was an english writer and. Cold hand in mine is a fine collection of eight of robert aickman s utterly unique brand of strange stories so unique as to be difficult to describe. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Another look at robert aickmans speculative short fiction. Robert aickman at nightfall books supernatural, horror, and.
Cofounder and longtime president of the inland waterways association, an organization. Reviewed by mario guslandi robert aickman defined his unsettling and puzzling tales strange stories, avoiding the terms ghost or supernatural because his literary enigmas were usually well rooted into reality, although often one of unfathomable and deceiving nature. The collected strange stories by robert aickman abebooks. New editions of robert aickmans strange stories for his. The collected strange stories of robert aickman vol 2 aickman, robert on. The wide, swift river and the tall buildings on both banks, the liver building, the cunard offices, and the huge constructions, mysterious in purpose, which sprang up like indestructible molehills when the mersey tunnel forced its way from shore to shore, provided a scale, lacking in an open seas. Robert aickman 19141981 is the master of a sort of fiction that remains nameless. Tararus still have in print sub rosa, dark entries, powers of darkness, cold hand in mine and we are for the dark. Robert fordyce aickman 27 june 1914 26 february 1981 was an english writer and conservationist. Robert aickman, like many of the finest british horror writers, was a respectable jekyll who indulged his hyde on the side.
Oct 29, 2012 robert aickman, like many of the finest british horror writers, was a respectable jekyll who indulged his hyde on the side. Robert aickman 19141981 in addition to eight collections of strange stories, as he dubbed them, his writing includes a short novel, the late breakfasters 1965, a posthumously published novella, the model 1987, and various unpublished fiction, dramatic, and nonfiction works. Robert aickman books list of books by author robert aickman. Aug 12, 2011 the collected strange stories of robert aickman vol. Available only with the simultaneous the collected strange stories of robert aickman, volume i.
By day he was cofounder of the inland waterways association and. Robert aickmans cult horror books are being resurrected for the centenary of his birth aickman wandered through the 1960s fantasy publishing scene like an elegant, if quarrelsome, revenant. New editions of robert aickmans strange stories for his centenary year. Oct 28, 2016 tartarus press has done heroic work over the years to keep aickman in print, first with 1999s twovolume collected strange stories, then, beginning in 2011, with exquisite reissues of each of the individual collections, culminating with the strangers and other writings in 2015, a collection of work previously unpublished, as well as. Tartarus press has done heroic work over the years to keep aickman in print, first with 1999s twovolume collected strange stories, then, beginning in 2011, with exquisite reissues of each of the individual collections, culminating with the strangers and other writings in 2015, a collection of work previously unpublished, as well as. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. See all books authored by robert aickman, including vampires. Interesting enough 3,4 stories mentioned in this thread by fe is included in my library copy of the wine dark sea. Jan 29, 2014 robert aickman 19141981 is the master of a sort of fiction that remains nameless. Publisher website dates reprinting to 2000, but pages says 2001. For the second half of his long life, christopher logue 19262011. Compulsory games is only the third aickman book that i. Collected strange stories robert aickman 1st ed 500 copy 2. Richmond, va valancourt, 2016 with 6 additional stories and a new introduction by philip challinor those, if any, who wish to know more about me should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of the.
Buy the collected strange stories of robert aickman. The collected strange stories volumes i and ii robert aickman on. May 05, 2018 aickman was born in london, in 1914, and made a relatively late literary debut, at age thirtyseven, with we are for the dark, a volume that combined three of his stories with three by the. Faber finds will also reissue aickmans extremely rare novels the. Tartarus press publish the definitive collected strange stories, as aickman liked to call his work often, his ghostly fiction contains no apparent ghosts at all but its also fairly easy and inexpensive to pick up copies of the us editions of cold hand in mine and painted devils on abebooks.
For the first time, new editions of his books are plentiful, making this a golden. While there are elements of horror and the supernatural, the stories to not neatly fit into those genres. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Two centuries of great vampire stories, and cold hand in mine. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The collected strange stories of robert aickman vol.
The collected strange stories of robert aickman vol 2. You could brand his collected stories as horror, but beyond the rare tale or two like the prosaic vampire yarn pages from a young girls journal 1973 youd be far off the mark. Russells tartarus bibliography on his site with teg on both volumes and marbled endpapers. As a conservationist, he cofounded the inland waterways association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored englands inland canal system. A fine copy, foxing to top edge, some offsetting to end papers in a near fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing primarily to corners, spine ends and folds. This documentary explores and provides new insights into the life and writing of british author robert aickman 19141981, with special reference to his celebrated strange stories modern.