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Joan Aiken

(Joan Delano Aiken)

(1924 - 2004)
(Daughter of Conrad Aiken, stepdaughter of Martin Armstrong, sister of Jane Aiken Hodge)

About Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken spent part of her childhood living in a haunted house. After leaving school, she worked at the BBC, the United Nations, and in the editorial department of a magazine. All this time, she had been writing stories and after her first major novel was published in 1961, Joan left her job to write full-time. She has now written almost 100 books for adults and children, Including the hugely popular The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts In Battersea.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Serial Garden
The Complete Armitage Family Stories (Armitage Family)

Series

Wolves of Willoughby Chase
1. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962)
2. Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
3. Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
4. The Whispering Mountain (1968)
5. The Cuckoo Tree (1971)
6. Midnight Is a Place (1974)
7. The Stolen Lake (1981)
8. Dido and Pa (1986)
9. Is (1992)
aka Is Underground
10. Cold Shoulder Road (1995)
11. Dangerous Games (1999)
aka Limbo Lodge
12. Midwinter Nightingale (2003)
13. The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005)
Is / Cold Shoulder Road (omnibus) (2004)

Armitage Family
Armitage, Armitage Fly Away Home (1968)
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (2008)

Arabel and Mortimer
Arabel's Raven (1972)
Escaped Black Mamba (1973)
The Bread Bin (1974)
Mortimer's Tie (1976)
Arabel and Mortimer (1980)
Mortimer's Cross (1983)
Arabel and the Escaped Black Mamba (1984)
A Call at the Joneses (1985)
Mortimer Says Nothing (1985)
The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1988)
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1990)
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1990)
Mortimer and Arabel (1992) (with Lizza Aiken)
The Spiral Stair (1992)
The Adventures of Arabel and Mortimer (omnibus) (1993)
Mortimer's Mine (1994)
Mayhem in Rumbury (omnibus) (1995)
Mortimer's Bread Bin (2001)

Felix
Go Saddle the Sea (1977)
Bridle the Wind (1983)
The Teeth of the Gale (1988)
aka In the Teeth of the Gale

Novels

More Than You Bargained for (1955)
The Kingdom and the Cave (1960)
The Silence of Herondale (1964)
The Fortune Hunters (1965)
Trouble with Product X (1966)
The Cockatrice Boys (1966)
Beware of the Bouquet (1966)
The Ribs of Death (1967)
Hate Begins at Home (1967)
Dark Interval (1967)
The Crystal Crow (1968)
Night Fall (1969)
The Embroidered Sunset (1970)
A Cluster of Separate Sparks (1972)
aka The Butterfly Picnic
Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972)
Voices in an Empty House (1975)
Castle Barebane (1976)
Last Movement (1976)
The Five-Minute Marriage (1977)
The Smile of the Stranger (1978)
Mice and Mendelson (1978)
Come Flee with Me (1978)
The Shadow Guests (1980)
The Weeping Ash (1980)
The Lightning Tree (1980)
The Young Lady from Paris (1982)
aka Girl from Paris
Foul Matter (1983)
The Kitchen Warriors (1983)
Mansfield Revisited (1984)
If I Were You (1987)
Deception (1987)
The Erl King's Daughter (1988)
Voices (1988)
Blackground (1989)
Jane Fairfax (1990)
Return to Harken House (1990)
The Shoemaker's Boy (1991)
Morningquest (1992)
The Midnight Moropus (1993)
Eliza's Daughter (1994)
A Handful of Gold (1995)
Emma Watson (1996)
The Youngest Miss Ward (1998)
Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000)
Song of Mat and Ben (2001)
Bone and Dream (2002)

Omnibus

Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (1984)

Collections

All You've Ever Wanted (1953)
A Necklace of Raindrops: And Other Stories (1968)
Girl's Choice (1969)
A Small Pinch of Weather (1969)
The Windscreen Weepers: And Other Tales of Horror and Suspense (1969)
Smoke from Cromwell's Time: and Other Stories (1970)
The Kingdom Under the Sea: And Other Stories (1970)
The Green Flash: And Other Tales of Horror, Suspense and Fantasy (1971)
A Bundle of Nerves (1972)
A Harp of Fishbones (1972)
Not What You Expected (1974)
All but a Few (1974)
The Skin Spinners: Poems (poems) (1976)
The Faithless Lollybird (1977)
The Far Forests: Tales of Romance, Fantasy, and Suspense (1977)
Tale of a One-Way Street: And Other Stories (1978)
A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights (1979)
Whisper in the Night: Tales of Terror and Suspense (1981)
Up the Chimney Down (1984)
Give Yourself a Fright (1984)
A Fit of Shivers (1984)
The Last Slice of the Rainbow: And Other Stories (1985)
Past Eight O'Clock (1986)
The Haunting of Lamb House (1987)
A Goose on Your Grave (1987)
A Foot in the Grave (1989)
Shadows and Moonshine (1990)
Haunting Christmas Tales (1991)
A Creepy Company (1993)
The Winter Sleepwalker (1994)
Moon Cake: And Other Stories (1998)
Ghostly Beasts (2002)
Snow Horse: And Other Stories (2004)

Plays

Winterthing: A Play for Children (1972)
The Mooncusser's Daughter: A Play for Children (1974)
Street (1978)

Picture Books

The Moon's Revenge (1987)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2002)
The Wooden Dragon (2004)

Series contributed to

Shock Shop
The Scream (2002)

Anthologies edited

Chilling Christmas Tales (1992)

Non fiction

The Way to Write for Children (1982)
Conrad Aiken, Our Father (1989) (see Conrad Aiken)

Anthologies containing stories by Joan Aiken

The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
The 5th Ghost Book (1969)
The 10th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1969)
The 6th Ghost Book Book 2 (1970)
Triangles (1973)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
Horror Stories (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Skin of the Soul (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
Christmas Forever (1993)
Fantasy Stories (1994)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Shivers for Christmas (1995)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Scaremongers (1998)
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Short stories

	Marmalade Wine (1958)
	Sonata for Harp and Bicycle (1958)
	A Harp of Fishbones (1960)
	Baba Yaga's Daughter (1971)
	The Golden-Fleeced Ram and the Hundred Elephants (1971)
	The Goose Girl (1971)
	The Imprisoned Queen (1971)
	The King Who Declared War on the Animals (1971)
	The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971)
	A Long Day Without Water (1971)
	The Pear Tree (1971)
	The Reed Girl (1971)
	The Sun's Cousin (1971)
	The Sun-God's Castle (1971)
	The Venetian Princess (1971)
	Hope (1972)
	Humblepuppy (1972)
	Mrs Nutti's Fireplace (1972)
	The Prince of Darkness (1972)
	Two Tales of Burnt Porridge (1972)
	The Square on the Hypotenuse (1973)
	Power-Cut (1976)
	The Companion (1978)
	Time to Laugh (1979)
	The Ill-Natured Muse (1980)
	Homer's Whistle (1983)
	The Jealous Apprentice (1984)
	Potter's Gray (1984)
	Clem's Dream (1985)
	Wing Quack Flap (1985)
	Aunt Susan (1987)
	The Blades (1987)
	Cousin Alice (1987)
	The End of Silence (1987)
	The Lame King (1987)
	The Last Specimen (1987)
	Lob's Girl (1987)
	The Old Poet (1987)
	A Rhyme for Silver (1987)
	Snow Horse (1987)
	Your Mind is a Mirror (1987)
	The Erl King's Daughter (1988)
	Amberland (1989)
	Beezlebub's Baby (1989)
	Bindweed (1989)
	Cold Harbour (1989)
	Do Not Alight Here (1989)
	Find Me (1989)
	A Foot in the Grave (1989)
	Give Yourself a Fright (1989)
	An Ill Wind (1989)
	The King of Nowhere (1989)
	Light Work (1989)
	Moveable Ears (1989)
	Birthday Gifts (1990)
	Earrings (1990)
	An L-Shaped Grave (1990)
	The Legacy (1990)
	Little Nym (1990)
	Number Four, Bowstring Lane (1990)
	The Rose-Garden Dream (1990)
	The Shrieking Door (1990)
	Something (1990)
	Watkyn, Comma (1990)
	The Traitor (1991)
	The Cockatrice Boys (1993)
	Dead Man's Lane (1993)
	Die from Day to Day (1993)
	Fastness of Light (1993)
	My Disability (1993)
	They Have Found Out (1993)
	Toomie (1993)
	The Ferry (1995)
	My Feeling about Ghosts (1997)
	Quando Tu Vas (1997)
	The Alarm Cock
	As Gay as Cheese
	Aunt Jezebel's House
	Belle of the Ball
	The Boy with a Wolf's Foot
	Bridget's Hat
	Clean Sheets
	The Cold Flame
	Cricket
	The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green
	Dead Language Master
	Do You Dig Grieg?
	Five Green Moons
	Furry Night
	A Game of Black and White
	The Gift Pig
	The Goodbye Song
	'He'
	The Helper
	The Jar of Cobblestones
	Jugged Hare
	The Lions
	Listening
	Lodgers
	Lodging for the Night
	The Lost Five Minutes
	The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick
	Mrs Considine
	Our Feathered Friends
	Postman's Knock
	The Queen of the Moon
	The Rented Swan
	The River Boy
	The Rose of Puddle Fratrum
	Safe and Soundproof
	The Sale of Midsummer
	Searching for Summer
	A Set for Every Sheep
	The Sewanee Glide
	Smell
	The Story About Caruso
	Sultan's Splash
	Tale of a One-Way Street
	The Tractor, the Duck and the Drum
	A Train Full of War-Lords
	Who Goes Down this Dark Road?

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