{"product_id":"compulsory-games","title":"Compulsory Games","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 2018 selection for the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/pages\/the-nyrb-classics-book-club\"\u003eNYRB Classics Book Club\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003cspan style=\"display:\" none\u003e victoria nelson aickman \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48328323170548,"sku":"9781681371894","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/0451\/4804\/files\/9_-_Compulsory_Games.jpg?v=1779612185","url":"https:\/\/q0mpnf-ju.myshopify.com\/products\/compulsory-games","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}