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Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Year | 03/01/2019 |
Version | eBook: Reflowable eTextbook (ePub) |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9780571354665 |
Categories | Horror & ghost stories, Short stories |
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his 'strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life.
Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it.
Years later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map . . .
The Inner Room