Bibliograph

Compulsory games, and other stories, Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson

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Compulsory games, and other stories, Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Compulsory games

Oclc number

1014011764

Responsibility statement

Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Sub title

and other stories

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

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