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Robert Aickman Books in Order

20 books are credited to Robert Aickman, published between 1964 and 2020; 9 of them appeared after Robert Aickman's death in 1981. The first book is Dark Entries (1964) and the newest is Go Back at Once (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1964–2020
Confirmed
1 of 20 titles
Pages on record
3,363 in 13 of 20 books
Reading time
56–84 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,363 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Robert Aickman, author

Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914-1981) was an English writer and conservationist who called his supernatural fiction strange stories. Aickman built those stories on unsettling atmosphere and indirect suggestion, with characters dislocated in time and space, rather than on explicit horror or gore. Away from fiction, Aickman co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, which saved and restored England's inland canal system. The catalogue holds 20 titles published between 1964 and 2020, opening with Dark Entries (1964), and indexes them under English ghost stories, horror and single-author short story collections.

How many Robert Aickman books are there?

Robert Aickman has 20 books, released between 1964 and 2020. 9 of them were published after Robert Aickman's death in 1981.

Robert Aickman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Robert Aickman books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Dark Entries by Robert Aickman (1964)
  2. Cover of The Attempted Rescue by Robert Aickman (1966)
  3. Cover of Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman (1966)
  4. Cover of Tales Of Love And Death by Robert Aickman (1977)
  5. Cover of Painted Devils by Robert Aickman, book 6 of the Edward Gorey series (1979)
  6. Cover of The Stains by Robert Aickman (1980)
  7. Cover of The Model by Robert Aickman (1987)
  8. Cover of The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman (1990)
  9. Cover of Night Voices by Robert Aickman (2013)
  10. Cover of The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories by Robert Aickman (2016)
  1. 1
    Dark Entries1964 · 197 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964197
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  2. 2
    The Late Breakfasters1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
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  3. 3
    The Attempted Rescue1966 · 231 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966231
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  4. 4
    Powers of Darkness1966 · confirmed 1/4
    1966–
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  5. 5
    The Inner RoomFaber Stories #21968 · confirmed 3/4
    1968–
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  6. 6
    Sub Rosa1968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
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  7. 7
    Pages from a Young Girl's Journal1974 · confirmed 1/4
    1974–
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  8. 8
    Tales Of Love And Death1977 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977192
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  9. 9
    Painted DevilsEdward Gorey #61979 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979234
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  10. 10
    The Stains1980 · 335 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980335
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  11. 11
    Intrusions: Strange Tales1980 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980216
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  12. 12
    The Model1987 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987138
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  13. 13
    The Wine-Dark Sea1988 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988352
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  14. 14
    The Unsettled Dust1990 · 302 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990302
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  15. 15
    The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman: v. 1 & 21999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  16. 16
    Night Voices2013 · 185 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013185
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  17. 17
    River Runs Uphill2014 · 210 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014210
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  18. 18
    The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories2016 · 430 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016430
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  19. 19
    Compulsory Games2018 · 341 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018341
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  20. 20
    Go Back at Once2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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Robert Aickman books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Faber Stories in order

1 book
  1. 2. The Inner Room

Edward Gorey in order

1 book
  1. 6. Painted Devils

Standalone books

18 books

18 Robert Aickman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Robert Aickman books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 20 Robert Aickman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Robert Aickman

Start with Dark Entries (1964), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Robert Aickman book?

Go Back at Once (2020) is the newest Robert Aickman book released so far.

Is there a new Robert Aickman book coming?

No next Robert Aickman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Robert Aickman has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 4 nominations for Robert Aickman. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction1981Wonfor The Stains
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction1975Wonfor Pages from a Young Girl's Journal
  • Locus Award for Best Novella2016Shortlistedfor The Strangers
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Collection2000Shortlistedfor The Collected Strange Stories, Volumes I & II
  • Locus Award for Best Collection1989Shortlistedfor The Wine-Dark Sea
  • Locus Award for Best Novella1978Shortlistedfor Growing Boys

Robert Aickman at a glance

Died
Robert Aickman died in 1981, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Robert Aickman are still being published after Robert Aickman's death in 1981; the newest appeared in 2020.
Release pace
Robert Aickman books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,363 pages across the 13 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 231 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Robert Aickman books, 6 of 20, were published in the 1960s.

What the Robert Aickman books are about

11 of the 20 Robert Aickman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.