Compulsory Games
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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 un...
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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.
Detaljer
Forlag
NYRB Classics
ISBN
9781681371894
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
160
Udgivelsesdato
08-05-2018
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3355406
EAN nr.
9781681371894
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
203
Bredde (mm)
130
Længde (mm)
24
Vægt (g)
384