The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease

A. S. Byatt,Ramsey Campbell,Ian Duhig,Hanif Kureishi,Adam Marek

The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Comma Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 July 2018
Pages
224
ISBN
9781905583188

The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease

A. S. Byatt,Ramsey Campbell,Ian Duhig,Hanif Kureishi,Adam Marek

In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its inner anatomy, and pulling out mysterious organs for classification. His aim: to present to the world a complete theory of ‘das unheimliche’, the uncanny. In the spirit of this great experiment, 14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts…

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