Compulsory Games

Descriere

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 and uniquely his own. These 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? Does a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death? Published for the first time under one cover, the stories in this collection offer an unequaled introduction to a profoundly original modern master of the uncanny.

Despre autor

Robert Aickman

scriitor și conservator britanic (1914-1981)

Robert Fordyce Aickman a fost un scriitor și conservatorist englez. Ca activist pentru conservarea naturii, a co-fondat Asociația pentru Căile Navigabile Interioare, o organizație care a protejat împotriva distrugerii și a restaurat sistemul de canale interioare din Anglia.