Compulsory games
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Robert Aickman ; edited by Victoria Nelson
Contributors: Nelson, Victoria, editor, writer of introduction
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781681371894
Subjects: English Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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?" --
Table of contents: title: Introduction: under the skin --; title: Compulsory games --; title: Hand in glove --; title: Marriage --; title: Le miror --; title: No time is passing --; title: Raising the wind --; title: Residents only --; title: Wood --; title: The strangers --; title: The coffin house --; title: Letters to the postman --; title: Laura --; title: The fully-conducted tour --; title: A disciple of Plato --; title: Just a song at twilight.