Compulsory Games
And Other Stories
New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm.
"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.
Series: 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.
ISBN:
9781681371894
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Aickman | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |