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Compulsory Games : and Other Stories by Robert Aickman & Victoria Nelson [Aickman, Robert & Nelson, Victoria] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Compulsory Games : and Other Stories about?

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.

Who reads Compulsory Games : and Other Stories?

Author

Robert Aickman & Victoria Nelson [Aickman, Robert & Nelson, Victoria]

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681371894

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14