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Compulsory games : and other stories / Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aickman, Robert, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Short stories, English.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 341 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
- 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.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Aickman, Robert. Compulsory games.
- ISBN:
- 9781681371894
- 1681371898
- OCLC:
- 1014011764
- Publisher Number:
- 99977164524
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