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".

Awards

In 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story ?Pages from a Young Girl's Journal?. This story originally appeared in February 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and two years later in the collection Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1975). In 1981, the year he died, Aickman was awarded the British Fantasy Society prize for his story "The Stains" which had first appeared in 1980 in the anthology New Terrors (London: Pan 1980), edited by his friend and protégé Ramsey Campbell. It subsequently appeared, posthumously, in Aickman's final collection of stories Night Voices: Strange Stories.

Related Topics:
British Fantasy Society - Ramsey Campbell

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