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 dopplegangers and
automatons—a tale that inspired generations of writers and
thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters
of the uncanny—including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and
Shirley Jackson—form a foundation for sixteen award-winning
contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs
the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown.
These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan,
Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United
States, Uruguay, and Zambia—although their birthplaces are
not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do
they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary
authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate
Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin,
Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven
Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal,
Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck.
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