Robert AickmanBorn in London, The United Kingdom June 27, 1914Died February 26, 1981Author of: close to 50 "strange stories" in the weird-tale and ghost-story traditions, two novels (The Late Breakfasters and The Model), two volumes of memoir (The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill), and two books on the canals of England (Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways).Co-founder and longtime president of the Inland Waterways Association, an organization that in the middle of the 20th century restored a great part of England