![]() The Lodgers is in her collection of short supernatural stories A Touch of Chill. She won many awards for her fiction during her lifetime. Many of her novels have supernatural themes, such as the Shadow Guests and the Haunting of Lamb House. Her stories have almost a magical realism feel (a term which of course really belongs to South American literature) in that she uses what appear to be genuine historical settings subtly twisted to become fantasy. She is most famous for her children’s fiction, notably The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts in Battersea. Her first story appeared on the BBC Children’s Hour in 1941 when she was seventeen.Īfter the death of her first husband she went to work as an editor on magazines. She went to a private school in Oxford but did not go to University. She died in Petworth West Sussex in 2004. ![]() ![]() Joan was born while her father was domiciled in England, on Mermaid Street in Rye in East Sussex in 1924. ![]() Her father, being a poet presumably appreciated the para-rhyming of their names. Her elder sister Jane was a writer and her brother John was a chemist. Joan Delano Aiken was the daughter of Conrad Aiken, whose story Mr Arcularis we read out on The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. ![]()
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