Description: 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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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Compulsory Games
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Occult & Supernatural, Short Stories (Single Author), Horror, Gothic
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Robert Aickman
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
