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Machine generated contents note: 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. |
| Summary |
"The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird. Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described "strange stories" 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 "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? 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Print version: Aickman, Robert, author. Compulsory games New York City : New York Review Books, [2018] 9781681371894 |
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Original 9781681371900 |
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Electronic books.
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| Series |
New York Review Books Classics
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| Add'l Names |
Nelson, Victoria, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| Other Uniform title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781681371900
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| STANDARD # |
900AFD6F-EA42-4287-9071-6E8EC4511B03 OverDrive |
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