Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny

Book Overview

This collection of fifteen stories straddles the border between the territory of ordinary anxiety and that of existential nightmare. These tales of dread and darkness do not feature the traditional demons that haunt country houses or pop up from unopened graves, but rather characters who inhabit the familiar scenes of life. These are tales of ordinary people, and this makes them all the more disquieting, and their horrors more sharply edged, precisely because they are set in modern, everyday reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567921809
• ISBN13: 9781567921809
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An unexpected treasure trove of fabulous stories

I was originally wary of this anthology as it was portraying the stories as "uncanny"; which I wasn't sure what that meant. To my immense surprise and delight, the stories (bar none) were fascinating, well written and ran the gamut from Joyce Caro Oates to Harlan Ellison. A hint of horror, a dash of suspense, a soupcon of mystery - it was all over the map. And not one dud in the batch. Rarely have I every read a book of stories that I didn't want to rush through; but rather take my time and enjoy them. I honestly cannot recommend this book highly enough for short story enthusiasts.