Compulsory games : and other stories

Aickman, Robert (author.). Nelson, Victoria, (editor,, writer of introduction.).

Summary: "Aickman's 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? Do a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death?" --

Item details

ISBN: 9781681371894
ISBN: 1681371898
Physical Description: print
xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2018]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: under the skin -- Compulsory games -- Hand in glove -- Marriage -- Le miroir -- No time is passing -- Raising the wind -- Residents only -- Wood -- The strangers -- The coffin house -- Letters to the postman -- Laura -- The fully-conducted tour -- A disciple of Plato -- Just a song at twilight.

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