Robert Aickman

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1968
  • Latest Book:
    August 2019
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Books in Order: 14 titles

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  • The Inner Room

    Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his 'strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines betw...

  • Compulsory Games

    The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.Robert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales...

  • The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories

    An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "...

  • The Wine-Dark Sea

    'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's '...

  • Dark Entries

    For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of re...

  • The Late Breakfasters

    'Griselda de Reptonville did not know what love was until she joined one of Mrs. Hatch's famous house parties at Beams, and there met Leander...' The Late Breakfasters (1964) was the sole novel Robert Aickman published in his lifetime. Its heroine...

  • Intrusions

  • Cold Hand in Mine

    For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece Shearsmith Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds...

  • The Unsettled Dust

    For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realisti...



  • Model

    After Robert Aickman's death in 1981 the manuscript of The Model, a wintry rococo fable set in Czarist Russia, was located among his papers. Aickman had told a friend he considered this novella to be 'one of the best things I have ever written, if no...

  • Tales of Love and Death

  • Go Back at Once

    Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the US and not widely in the UK, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasy about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the degradations of our technologica...

  • Sub Rosa : Strange Tales

  • We Are for the Dark

    • / Horror
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Aickman has published 14 books.

Robert Aickman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Inner Room, was published in August 2019.

The first book by Robert Aickman, Sub Rosa : Strange Tales, was published in June 1968.

No. Robert Aickman does not write books in series.
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