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The Inner Room

Published
Aug 2019
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General Fiction General Fiction
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80

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.


In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his 'strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life.


Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it.


Years later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map . . .

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First Edition Aug 2019 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN 0571351778
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Jan 2019 Faber & Faber ISBN B07LFKY5DV
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