Reality and Other Stories

Paperback | 31 May 2022

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In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers--and since then Lanchester has written several more.

Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real...

Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.

Industry Reviews

"A smart book, scary as hell, and also a whole lot of fun...[Reality and Other Stories is] as endlessly entertaining as it is legitimately frightening." -- Michael Schaub, NPR.org
"Ingenious...[Lanchester's stories] send a shiver down the spine." -- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
"John Lanchester's collection of tech-y ghost stories seems especially appealing right now...The eight tales in Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories are meant to entertain, to take you out of yourself for a space-and that they deftly do." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"This intriguing debut collection grapples with technology and its illusion of convenience, choice and escape. Lanchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a sharp eye for social class and setting in his ghost stories for the digital age." -- Vanessa Hua, New York Times Book Review
"Brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure." -- Guardian
"A mind-bending collection about the multifaceted scariness of the way we live now." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"Very clever, very modern 'entertainments.'" -- Financial Times (UK)
"Across these immensely enjoyable and varied tales, Lanchester embraces the camp silliness of the gothic sensibility, while also making astute observations about our ever-developing digital reality." -- Booklist

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