Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, in collaboration with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories in a volume entitled
We Are for the Dark. Aickman went on to publish seven more volumes of 'strange stories' as well as two novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.
Las autodenominadas «historias extrañas» de Robert Aickman son desconcertantemente únicas. Su prosa soberbia no sólo infunde terror a través del suspenso convencional y el gore, sino también por medio de una transgresión radical de las leyes de la naturaleza y la vida cotidiana....
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