The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows by Bruno Schulz, John Herdman, Chris Adrian, Kate Bernheimer, Karin Tidbeck, China Miéville, Jonathan Carroll, Karen Russell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Steve Stern, Marjorie Bowen, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Dean Paschal, Marjorie Sandor, Felisberto Hernández, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Edgar Allan Poe, Kelly Link, Ambrose Bierce, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Namwali Serpell, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Joan Aiken, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Aimee Bender, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Yōko Ogawa, Steven Millhauser

The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows

Bruno Schulz, John Herdman, Chris Adrian, Kate Bernheimer, Karin Tidbeck, China Miéville, Jonathan Carroll, Karen Russell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Steve Stern, Marjorie Bowen, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Dean Paschal, Marjorie Sandor, Felisberto Hernández, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Edgar Allan Poe, Kelly Link, Ambrose Bierce, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Namwali Serpell, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Joan Aiken, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Aimee Bender, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Yōko Ogawa, Steven Millhauser

576 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious slow-paced
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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...

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Moods

adventurous 100%
challenging 100%
dark 100%
mysterious 100%
reflective 100%
sad 100%
tense 100%

Pace

slow 100%

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Loveable characters?

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Diverse cast of characters?

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