ROBERT AICKMAN: AN INTRODUCTION

by Gary William Crawford

Robert Aickman was one of the most important writers of ghost stories in the last century.  His personal, deeply felt ghost stories were consummately poetic.  Very much feeling a sense of twentieth century Angst, he wrote elegant, moving tales of subtle terror.  Aickman also founded The Inland Waterways Association in Britain, which upgraded Britain's rivers and canals.   He was a drama and film critic as well as on the boards of British opera and ballet companies. This book is an overview of his life and work.

"All Aickman admirers who are rightly cultish about this disquieting author, will want to read Crawford's useful monograph."  Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World.

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76 pages (2003) $20.00