The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows

by Marjorie Sandor, Anton Chekhov, Chris Adrian, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250041716
• ISBN13: 9781250041715
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.9" x 8.7"