Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London.
He died in February 1981..
He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories .
Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography.
It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We Are the Dark .
In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain.
He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957.
Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London