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Compulsory Games (New York Review Books Classics) by Nelson, Victoria Book The
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- 9781681371894
- EAN
- 9781681371894
- Book Title
- Compulsory Games
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Occult & Supernatural, Horror, Short Stories (Single Author), Gothic
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681371898
ISBN-13
9781681371894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
241175349
Product Key Features
Book Title
Compulsory Games
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Occult & Supernatural, Horror, Short Stories (Single Author), Gothic
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6051.I3a6 2018
Reviews
"Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully." --Neil Gaiman "Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever.... His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments." --Russell Kirk "This century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories." --Peter Straub "Robert Aickman has a gift for depicting the eerie areas of inner space, the churning storms and silent overcasts that engulf the minds of lonely and alienated people. He is a weatherman of the subconscious." --Fritz Lieber "Unsettling is a key description for Aickman's writing, not merely in the sense of creating anxiety, but in the sense of undoing what has been settled: his stories unsettle the ideas you bring to them about how fictional reality and consensus reality should fit together. The supernatural is never far from the surreal. He was drawn to ghost stories because they provided him with conventions for unmaking the conventional world, but he was about as much of a traditional ghost story writer as Salvador Dal was a typical designer of pocket watches." --Matthew Cheney, Electric Literature "His prose style--supple, urbane, sophisticated, restrained, yet capable of surprisingly powerful emotive effects--never falters from the beginning to the end of his work. There are few writers who are as purely pleasurable to read, regardless of their subject matter or the success or failure of their actual work, as Robert Aickman." --S. T. Joshi "To interact with Aickman on any meaningful level is to experience a form of quantum entanglement. His ideas entrain the subconscious and mutate it in the fashion that transgressive art must. And yes, I'm implying that the old boy has fucked your mind. Buttoned down or not, it's just what he liked to do." --Laid Barron, Weird Fiction Review
Table of Content
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman PROVISIONAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Compulsory Games Le Miroir Raising the Wind Residents Only Hands in Glove Wood Laura Just a Song at Twilight Letters to the Postman Marriage No Time Is Passing The Strangers The Fully-Conducted Tour A Disciple of Plato The Coffin House
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-055019
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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