6/22/2023 0 Comments Compulsory games by robert aickmanRobert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly and uniquely his own. May this new collection unnerve an entire generation of readers the way I got permanently unnerved when I first read 'Le Miroir' in Whispers magazine in 1977." -John Darnielle I have hoped for years to see Aickman's writing gain the broad readership it deserves. You will never forget the first Aickman story you read, nor be satisfied when you've read them all and so this new collection is a feast for those of us who'd sought out the out-of-print volumes in second-hand stores over the years. The number of short story writers in English who are or were Aickman's equal is a low single digit. Aickman wrote what he called 'strange stories'-the sort of thing that gets the dreaded genre fiction tag attached to you, so it's mainly horror fans who know his work. "Robert Aickman is one of the twentieth century's finest practitioners of the short story and his name should be placed among the greats-Flannery O'Connor, Irwin Shaw, Raymond Carver. Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman / ISBN 9781681371894 / 368-page paperback from New York Review of Books Classics
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