{"product_id":"compulsory-games","title":"Compulsory Games","description":"The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309495984463,"sku":"9781681371894","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781681371894_1-compulsory-games.jpg?v=1774419013","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/compulsory-games","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}