![]() Apparently, writing was in his blood as his maternal grandfather, Richard Marsh, was a prolific Victorian novelist, who wrote The Beetle (1897), an occult novel that was almost as popular as Dracula in its time. However, his interests were more in the arts. His father also eventually left, living Aickman living at home alone.Īickman was originally schooled in architecture, which was his father’s profession. When Aickman was a teen-ager, his mother deserted the family. Aickman’s rancorous home life is mirrored in his stories “The Clock Watcher,” “Ringing the Changes,” “The Stains,” “The Fetch,” and others. This resulted in a family environment that was chaotic and emotionally empty, with the parents constantly bickering. ![]() His father, William, was “the oddest man I have ever known.” William had married at age 53 to a woman 30 years his junior and, being deeply set in his bachelor ways and accustomed to living alone, could not adapt to married life. ![]() Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in London on June 27, 1914. He also wrote longer fiction as well as non-fiction and was an editor and conservationist. Robert Aickman was an English writer best known for his “strange stories,” as he termed them, which were subtle and poetic and concentrated more on the emotions of horror rather than material terror. ![]()
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