The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny by Jane Alexander

(Luna Press Publishing, 2021)

Reviewed by Ksenia Shcherbino

The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny is a collection of strange and haunting stories. Or, giving word to Jane Alexander herself, these stories ‘are specific to the technologies of our age, and simultaneously recognisable as instances of the uncanny…with doubles, hauntings, confusions of the living and the dead, the return of the repressed and many other uncanny tropes and topos given contemporary expression.’

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