Compulsory Games
Author(s): Robert Aickman; Victoria Nelson (Editor, Introduction by)
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described ostrange storieso remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. 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 ovoid behind the face of order,o 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? Published for the first time under one cover, this collection offers a generous introduction to a sophisticated, psychologically acute modernist whose achievements have too long been hidden under the cloak of genre.
Product Information
The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.
General Fields
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- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : 0.366
- : May 2018
- : 2.1 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 20.1 Centimeters
- : United States
- : May 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : 368
- : Main
- : Paperback
- : Robert Aickman; Victoria Nelson (Editor, Introduction by)