Compulsory Games

<b>The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman a master of the supernatural tale the uncanny and the truly weird. <p/></b>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.