![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Her stepfather Martin Armstrong was, as well, a poet Joan Aiken’s sister and brother, Jane Aiken Hodge and John Aiken, like Joan, became writers.) Aiken wrote her first novel at the age of sixteen (more about that later) and sold her first story to the BBC around the same time. Her father was the poet Conrad Aiken, perhaps most famous now for his short story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” and her mother was Jessie MacDonald, who homeschooled Joan and filled her earliest years with Pinocchio, the Brontës, and the stories of Walter de la Mare, and much more. In 1924, Joan Aiken was born in a haunted house on Mermaid Street in Rye, England. We’re delighted to bring you this double dose of strange magic: the title story from the collection, and Kelly Link’s introduction to Aiken. This month, Small Beer Press releases The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories from the legendary Joan Aiken. ![]()
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