The New Uncanny by A S Byatt

The New Uncanny by A S Byatt

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Fourteen leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud's famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...

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The New Uncanny by A S Byatt

Fourteen leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud's famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...
'Delightful and disturbing' - The Independent on Sunday; 'A masterclass in understated creepiness.. a deliciously macabre collection' - Time Out

Ra Page is a former editor of Newcastle Tales magazine and the editor of Bracket, The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories, Comma, Hyphen, Leeds Stories, and Parenthesis.

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ISBN 13 9781905583188
ISBN 10 1905583184
Title The New Uncanny
Author A S Byatt
Series Comma Modern Horror
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Comma Press
Year published 2018-07-12
Number of pages 224
Prizes Winner of The Shirley Jackson Awards 2008
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