Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman (born June 24 1914 - died February 26 1981) was a British author of supernatural short stories he liked to describe as "strange".

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Aickman was the grandson of prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857-1915), known for his occult novel The Beetle (1897), a book arguably almost as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula. Aickman, however, is probably best remembered for his co-founding of The Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's inland canal system. One of his co-founders, L. T. C. Rolt, also produced a volume of twelve superb supernatual tales: Sleep No More (London: Constable 1948). Aickman was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. For a full exposition of the battle for the waterways, David Bolton's book Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved (London: Methuen 1990) is essential.

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