{"product_id":"9781681371894","title":"Compulsory Games","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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":42372894130237,"sku":"9781681371894","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781681371894_p0.jpg?v=1771581415","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781681371894","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}