“Could these be the most haunting stories ever penned? If you’re curious about what people mean when they use the term “Kafka-esque”, here is the perfect introduction. Bloom’s famous criteria for the Canon – “uncanniness” – oozes from every one of these strange and fantastic tales. A vague metaphysical menace, a lurking sense of unease and paranoia that is hard to put into words, are the thing here. It was a new, very 20th century mode (although there are shades of it in Dostoevsky), but...”

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