This riveting collection of stories explores a haunting theme that has fascinated writers in many different genres: the disquieting and eerie intrusion of the double into everyday life. The surprisingly diverse stories in Double/Double include murder mysteries, fairy tales, metaphysical conundrums, playful sleights of hand, and tales of horror and suspense.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Michael Richardson
• Meeting with a Double by George D. Painter (poem)
• The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Double by Ruth Rendell
• Gogol’s Wife by Tommaso Landolfi
• August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges
• Petition by John Barth
• You Are Not I by Paul Bowles
• The Case for the Defence by Graham Greene
• The Dummy by Susan Sontag
• The Expensive Delicate Ship by Brian W. Aldiss
• Doubles by Alberto Moravia
• Twins by Eric McCormack
• The Distance: The Diary of Alina Reyes by Julio Cortázar
• Two in One by Algernon Blackwood
• In Memory of Pauline by Adolfo Bioy Casares