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Household gizmos with a mind of their own.
Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.
And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.
Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
About the author
John Lanchester is the author of The Wall, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, as well as four other novels and three works of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.
Summary
Household gizmos with a mind of their own.
Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.
And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.
Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
Foreword
Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.
Report
An elegant and wonderfully witty writer. New York Times
