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Author Aickman, Robert, author

Title Compulsory games : and other stories / Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  823.914 .A2923c    AVAILABLE  
Phys Descr xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm
Series New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics
Contents 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
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 Short stories, English
Alt Author Nelson, Victoria, editor, writer of introduction
Alt Title Short stories. Selections
Other Form Online version: Aickman, Robert. Compulsory games. New York City : New York Review Books, [2018] 9781681371900 (DLC) 2017057586
OCLC # 1014011764
ISBN # 9781681371894
1681371898