"An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . ." - Sigmund Freud Nicholas Royle's stories are "immaculately sinister", according to Olivia Laing in the Times Literary Supplement, while Phil Baker, in the Sunday Times, described Royle as "a real craftsman of disquiet". In his third collection, The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories, Royle focuses on archetypes and phenomena...