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Compulsory Games
| Author: | Robert Aickman |
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New York Review of Books Classics, 2018 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described "strange stories" remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. 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? Published for the first time under one cover, this collection offers a generous introduction to a sophisticated, psychologically acute modernist whose achievements have too long been hidden under the cloak of genre.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Under the Skin - essay by Victoria Nelson
- Compulsory Games - (1976)
- Hand in Glove - (1979)
- Marriage - (1977)
- Le Miroir - (1977)
- No Time Is Passing - (1980)
- Raising the Wind - (1977)
- Residents Only - (1977)
- Wood - (1976)
- The Strangers - (2015)
- The Coffin House - (2015)
- Letters to the Postman - (1980)
- Laura - (1977)
- The Fully-Conducted Tour - (2005)
- A Disciple of Plato - (2015)
- Just a Song at Twilight - (1965)
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