The Dummy: & Other Uncanny Stories by Nicholas Royle Paperback Book

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In these stories he writes about doppelgängers, ghosts, dummies, disconnected body parts, impaired vision, the dead and the prospect of death, not without a macabre sense of humour.

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"An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . ." - Sigmund FreudNicholas Royle's stories are "immaculately sinister", according to Olivia Laing in the Times Literary Supplement, while Phil Baker, in the Sunday Times, described Royle as "a real craftsman of disquiet".In his third collection, The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories, Royle focuses on archetypes and phenomena that, through their particular melding of the familiar and the unfamiliar, produce uneasy, or uncanny, effects. These stories reflect Royle's continuing development as an exponent of the form, in which he is always seeking to learn and to grow, and to push against boundaries.

Author Biography

Nicholas Royle is the author of five short story collections-Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy, London Gothic, and Manchester Uncanny-and seven novels, including Counterparts, Antwerp, and First Novel. He has edited more than twenty-five anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories. He runs Nightjar Press, which publishes original short stories as signed, numbered chapbooks. His English translation of Vincent de Swarte's 1998 novel Pharricide was published by Confingo Publishing in 2019. In 2021 his first book of non-fiction, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collecter, was published by Salt.

Review

"Royle's dark fiction is always worth reading . . . His storytelling is impeccable, his plots always interesting and his characters credible." - SFRevu

Details ISBN1783807652 Author Nicholas Royle Pages 190 Publisher The Swan River Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781783807659 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-01-05 Imprint The Swan River Press Subtitle & Other Uncanny Stories Place of Publication Dublin 6 Country of Publication Ireland Audience General We've got this

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