Background
Robert Aickman was born on 27 January in 1914 in London, England.
Robert Aickman was born on 27 January in 1914 in London, England.
It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We are the Dark. Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories.