Compulsory Games

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371901
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Games written by Robert Aickman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cold Hand in Mine

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316417
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Cold Hand in Mine written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece ShearsmithAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Cold Hand in Mine, first published in 1975, stands as one of Aickman's finest collections and contains eight tales including 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' which won the World Fantasy Award. 'He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving.' Christopher Fowler, Independent

Dark Entries

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311784
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Dark Entries written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries (1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'

The Wine-Dark Sea

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316409
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Wine-Dark Sea written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. First published in 1988, The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight stories that build towards disturbing yet enigmatic endings, including the classic story 'Your Tiny Hand is Frozen.' 'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' Russell Kirk

Painted Devils

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Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Painted Devils written by Robert Aickman and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES OF HORROR FROM ENGLAND.

The Inner Room

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571354661
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Room written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his 'strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life.Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it.Years later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map . . .

The Late Breakfasters

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316859
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Late Breakfasters written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Griselda de Reptonville did not know what love was until she joined one of Mrs. Hatch's famous house parties at Beams, and there met Leander...' The Late Breakfasters (1964) was the sole novel Robert Aickman published in his lifetime. Its heroine Griselda is invited to a grand country house where a political gathering is to be addressed by the Prime Minister, followed by an All Party Dance. Expecting little, Griselda instead meets the love of her life. But their fledgling closeness is cruelly curtailed, and for Griselda life then becomes a quest to recapture the wholeness and happiness she felt all too briefly. 'Those, if any, who wish to know more about me' - Aickman wrote in 1965 - 'should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters.' Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love.

Go Back at Once

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ISBN 13 : 9781913505202
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Go Back at Once written by Robert Aickman and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Unsettled Dust

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316425
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Unsettled Dust written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. The Unsettled Dust was first published as a collection in 1990. Aickman received the British Fantasy Award for 'The Stains'. 'We are all potential victims of the powers Aickman so skilfully conjures and commands.' Robert Bloch

Powers of Darkness

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Powers of Darkness written by Robert Aickman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Model

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571316832
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Model written by Robert Aickman and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Robert Aickman's death in 1981 the manuscript of The Model, a wintry rococo fable set in Czarist Russia, was located among his papers. Aickman had told a friend he considered this novella to be 'one of the best things I have ever written, if not the very best.' It was duly published for the first time in 1987. The Model tells of Elena, a grave girl inclined to losing herself in dreams of becoming a student ballerina or coryphée. Her dolour darkens further when she learns she is to be sold into marital slavery by her father so as to settle the family's debts. Refusing an unendurable future she sets out to the city of Smorevsk to pursue her dream. First, however, she must traverse a landscape crowded by highly curious characters and creatures. 'A must for Aickman fans... A model of eloquent elegant enchantment.' Robert Bloch ( Psycho)

The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

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Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006132486
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories written by and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robert Aickman

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ISBN 13 : 9780913045107
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Robert Aickman written by Gary William Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and critical study of Robert Aickman.

The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

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Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 9781943910458
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Robert Aickman and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction" One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of "The Late Breakfasters,"" his only novel, originally published in 1964. In "The Late Breakfasters," young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost. Never before published in the United States and long unobtainable, Aickman's odd and whimsical novel is joined in this omnibus volume by six of his finest weird tales (three of them making their first-ever American appearance): "My Poor Friend," "The Visiting Star," "Larger Than Oneself," "A Roman Question," "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale," and "Rosamund's Bower," as well as a new introduction by Philip Challinor. "A master of the creepy, the uncanny and the strange." - "Wall Street Journal" "Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work." - Neil Gaiman "Robert Aickman at his best was this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories." - Peter Straub

We are for the Dark

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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The third Fontana book of great ghost stories

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Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006136965
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The third Fontana book of great ghost stories written by and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Attempted Rescue

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ISBN 13 : 9781872621616
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Attempted Rescue written by Robert Aickman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: