Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman

Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman

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.

Aickman, Robert Fordyce, was born in London in 1914. From 1941 to 1957, he was married to Edith Ray Gregorson. The Inland Waterways Association was founded in 1946 by the pair, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, to protect Britain's canals. We Are the Dark, a collection of ghost stories written by Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard, was first published in 1951. Aickman went on to write eleven more collections of horror stories, two fantasy novels, and two autobiographies.

He also edited The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Tales for the first eight volumes. In February 1981, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9781681371894
ISBN 10	1681371898
Title	Compulsory Games
Author	Robert Aickman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2018-05-08
Number of pages	160
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