Compulsory games : and other stories /

"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:...

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Main Author: Aickman, Robert (Author)
Other Authors: Nelson, Victoria (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
Series:New York Review Books classics.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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