Swan River Press:
Dublin: 2018
First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,
181 pp.
Cover artwork by: Megan Kehrli

“In his third collection, The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories, Royle focuses on archetypes and phenomena that, through their particular melding of the familiar and the unfamiliar, produce uneasy, or uncanny, effects. In these stories he writes about doppelgängers, ghosts, dummies, disconnected body parts, impaired vision, the dead and the prospect of death, not without a macabre sense of humour. These stories reflect Royle’s continuing development as an exponent of the form, in which he is always seeking to learn and to grow, and to push against boundaries.” Eighteen stories. #61657

Price: $55.00