Authors - A

[Dr Terror]

Robert Aickman

Joan Aiken

David Learmont Aitken - ?

Ken Alden - Pseudonym for Alan Kitch

Gregory Alexander - ?

John Arthur - ?

Robert Ashley - ?

Ray Askey ?

Gerald Atkins - ?

[Calenture]

Finding it difficult to make friends, she continued to write, completing her first full-length novel at the age of 16. At 18 she had her first short story accepted for publication: The Dreamers tells the story of a man who stews his wife in a pressure cooker.

I can't imagine why she found it difficult to make friends. That story alone would make her a lot of friends here! How come nobody's mentioned it yet?

Incidentally, this page at www.trussel.com/books/pseud_h.htm gives "Joan Aiken Hodge" as a pseudonym. But Fantastic Fiction says Joan Aiken Hodge was her sister...

Somewhere I'm sure I've read of a family connection between Joan Aiken and another famous writer of horror (other than Conrad Aiken) but annoyingly can't remember where I read it, or who it was. Possibly Robert Hitchens, author of How Love Came to Professor Gildea? Anyone know?