Haunting Tales - 1982 - BBC
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken (with her siblings, Joan Aiken authored Conrad Aiken Remembered (1989), a short, subtle appreciation of their complex and difficult father). Joan's mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald, a Masters
graduate from Radcliffe College, married English writer Martin Armstrong soon after Conrad Aiken separated from her.
Aiken wrote her first bit for the BBC when she was 16. Haunting Tales is an anthology of 5 of her best stories from 1982.
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