Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Aickman, Robert; Nelson, Victoria; Nelson, Victoria |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 5/8/2018 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.
Robert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly anduniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not withstandardthrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the lawsof natureand everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the“void behindthe face of order,” is a surreal region that grotesquelymimics thequotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river?What does itmean when a prospective lover removes one dress, and thenanother—andthen another? Does a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyardcontain thesouls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover todeath?Published for the first time under one cover, the stories inthiscollection offer an unequaled introduction to a profoundlyoriginalmodern master of the uncanny.
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