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The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows
| Author: | Marjorie Sandor |
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St. Martin's Griffin, 2015 |
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Synopsis
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 doppelgangers and automatons--a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters of the uncanny--including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Shirley Jackson--form a foundation for sixteen award-winning contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United States, Uruguay, and Zambia--although their birthplaces are not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal, Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (2015) - essay by Marjorie Sandor
- The Sandman - (1816) - by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Bernice - (1835) - by Edgar Allan Poe
- One of Twins - (1888) - by Ambrose Bierce
- On the Water - (1890) - by Guy de Maupassant
- Oysters - (1884) - by Anton Chekhov
- Pomegranate Seed - (1931) - by Edith Wharton
- The Stoker - (1927) - by Franz Kafka
- Decay - (1923) - by Marjorie Bowen
- The Music of Erich Zann - (1922) - by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Birds - (1934) - by Bruno Schulz
- The Usher - (1947) - by Felisberto Hernández
- The Waiting Room - (1956) - by Robert Aickman
- Paranoia - (1976) - by Shirley Jackson
- The Helper - (1979) - by Joan Aiken
- The Jesters - (2013) - by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Devil and Dr. Tuberose - (1993) - by John Herdman
- Phantoms - (2010) - by Steven Millhauser
- On Jacob's Ladder - (2012) - by Steve Stern
- The Panic Hand - (1989) - by Jonathan Carroll
- Moriya - (2003) - by Dean Paschal
- The Puppets - (1994) - by Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris
- Old Mrs. J - (2013) - by Yoko Ogawa
- Whitework - (2007) - by Kate Bernheimer
- Stone Animals - (2004) - by Kelly Link
- Tiger Mending - (2013) - by Aimee Bender
- The Black Square - (2009) - by Chris Adrian
- Foundation - (2005) - by China Miéville
- Gothic Night - (2011) - by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
- Reindeer Mountain - (2012) - by Karin Tidbeck
- Muzunga - (2007) - by C. Namwali Serpell
- Haunting Olivia - (2006) - by Karen Russell
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