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Compulsory Games

Compulsory Games

Aickman, Robert
Nelson, Victoria
Nelson, Victoria

Paperback

HorrorGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 1681371898
ISBN13: 9781681371894
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: May 8 2018
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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