Description
| Product ID: | 9781681371894 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Compulsory Games |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Aickman, Victoria Nelson |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Publisher Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-08 |
