The uncanny reader : stories from the shadows

Sandor, Marjorie.

Book 2015

"From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with The Sand-man, E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of dopplegangers and automatons -- a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 2...

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Horror tales

Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature

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ISBN:

9781250041715

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Description:

561 pages ;

Contents:

The sand-man / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman
Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe
One of twins / Ambrose Bierce
On the water / Guy de Maupassant
Oysters / Anton Chekhov
Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton
The stoker / Franz Kafka
Decay / Marjorie Bowen
The music of Erich Zann / H. P. Lovecraft
The birds / Bruno Schulz
The usher / Felisberto Hernandez
The waiting room / Robert Aickman
Paranoia / Shirley Jackson
The helper / Joan Aiken
The jesters / Joyce Carol Oates
The devil and Dr. Tuberose / John Herdman
Phantoms / Steven Millhauser
On Jacob's ladder / Steve Stern
The panic hand / Jonathan Carroll
Moriya / Dean Paschal
The puppets / Jean-Christopher Duchon-Doris
Old Mrs. J / Yoko Ogawa
Whitework / Kate Bernheimer
Stone animals / Kelly Link
Tiger mending / Aimee Bender
The black square / Chris Adrian
Foundation / China Mieville
Gothic night / Mansoura Ez Eldin
Reindeer mountain / Karin Tidbeck
Muzungu / C. Namwali Serpell
Haunting Olivia / Karen Russell

LCCN:

2014034217

Control Number:

1186804

Other Authors:

Sandor, Marjorie, editor

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