Robert Aickman

British writer and conservationist (1914-1981) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 66

Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system.

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Plaque at 11 Gower Street, London

Awards

British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction1981

World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction1975

About this person

As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories". Aickman's fiction often relied on unsettling atmosphere and indirect suggestion, along with characters who experience "dislocation in time and space", rather than explicit depiction of supernatural or gory events.

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United Kingdom