Compulsory Games And Other Stories - New York Review Books Classics

The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.Robert Aickman's self-described "strange stories" are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the "void behind the face of order," is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river? What does it mean when a prospective lover removes one dress, and then another-and then another? Does a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death? Published for the first time under one cover, the stories in this collection offer an unequaled introduction to a profoundly original modern master of the uncanny.

ISBN:	9781681371894
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Imprint:	New York Review Books
Published date:	14 Jun 2018
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvii, 341
Weight:	370g
Height:	130mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	24mm

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