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WE ARE FOR THE DARK: SIX GHOST STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's scarce first book. Collects three stories by Aickman and three by Howard with Aickman's collaboration including the classic "Three Miles Up." [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 851. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-7].
THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's scarce third book, an autobiography of his early years preceded by We Are For the Dark, a short story collection in collaboration with Elizabeth Jane Howard, and The Late Breakfasters, his first novel.
COLD HAND IN MINE: EIGHT STRANGE STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. Octavo, boards. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Collects eight stories. "Aickman's tales are clearly situated in the classic tradition of supernatural horror and achieve a rich and textured atmosphere of dread through meticulous orchestration of their events to an unsettling crescendo." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-3. The story "Pages From A Young Girl's Journey" was a World Fantasy award winner. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-3. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-1. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 267].
THE COLLECTED STRANGE STORIES.
[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press [and] Durtro Press, [1999]. Octavo, two volumes, boards. First edition, first printing. The major repository of Aickman's fiction. This two volume set collects Aickman's three contributions to WE ARE FOR THE DARK (1951) and the contents of DARK ENTRIES (1964), POWERS OF DARKNESS (1966), SUB ROSA (1968), COLD HAND IN MINE (1975), TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH (1977), INTRUSIONS (1980) and NIGHT VOICES (1985). Includes "Robert Aickman: An Appreciation" by David Tibet, "Robert Remembered" by Ramsey Campbell, and "An Essay" by Aickman written in response to receiving the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for best short story. "...it is not Aickman's quantity of output but his exceptional gifts as a writer - a prose style of impeccable fluidity, urbanity and elegance; a high sensitivity to those nuance and details productive of a weird scenario; a keen insight into all aspects of human psychology, not merely those touching upon the strange; and some very powerful weird conceptions that do not require copious, or any, bloodletting for the effectiveness-that distinguish him." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 2-3. Limited to 500 copies.
DARK ENTRIES.
London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's first solo collection of short fiction. Collects six stories. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-2].
DARK ENTRIES.
London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's first solo collection of short fiction. Collects six stories. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-2].
NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5].
NIGHT VOICES: STRANGE STORIES ...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5].
POWERS OF DARKNESS.
London: Collins, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second solo collection of macabre stories with six stories. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-7].
SUB ROSA.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64].
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64].
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64].
TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seven stories. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-9. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-6. Winter list, p. 267].