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Compulsory Games Trade paperback (i.e. 5 6 by 8 9 inch softcover) - 2018

by Robert Aickman

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NYRB Classics, 5/8/2018. Later Edition. Trade Paperback (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inch softcover). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/N/A (volume is softcover). New
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  • Title Compulsory Games
  • Author Robert Aickman
  • Binding Trade Paperback (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inch softcover)
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NYRB Classics
  • Date 5/8/2018
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000-208964
  • ISBN 9781681371894 / 1681371898
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Short stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017055019
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2018, Page 4
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/26/2018, Page 0

About the author

Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the son of an architect and grandson of the Victorian Gothic novelist Richard Marsh (author of the occult bestseller The Beetle). He did not attend university and subsisted on a small family income in London, working variously as a literary agent, editor, and theater and art critic. A prominent advocate for preserving and restoring England's extensive network of canals, he was cofounder, in 1946, of the influential Inland Waterways Association. Above all, Aickman wanted to be an author, and he realized this desire with an extensive oeuvre of quasi-supernatural tales. In addition to eight collections of "strange stories," as he dubbed them (the first, We Are For the Dark, included stories written by the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard), his writing includes a short novel, The Late Breakfasters (1965), a posthumously published novella, The Model (1987), and various unpublished fiction, dramatic, and nonfiction works. He published two memoirs, The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill, and two popular nonfiction books about the inland waterways. Aickman won the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for his story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" and edited eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, writing introductions for six. He died of cancer in 1981.

Victoria Nelson is a writer of fiction, criticism, and memoir. Her books include Gothicka and The Secret Life of Puppets, a study of the supernatural grotesque in Western culture that won the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in 2001, and Wild California, a collection of stories. She teaches in Goddard College's MFA creative writing program.

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