Description |
xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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Contents |
Introduction: under the skin -- Compulsory games -- Hand in glove -- Marriage -- Le miror -- 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. |
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?" -- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
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FICTION -- Occult & Supernatural.
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FICTION -- Romance -- Gothic.
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Short stories, English.
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Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories.
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Added Author |
Nelson, Victoria, editor, writer of introduction.
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Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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Other Form: |
Online version: Aickman, Robert. Compulsory games. New York City : New York Review Books, [2018] 9781681371900 (DLC) 2017057586 |
ISBN |
9781681371894 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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1681371898 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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