Grey Area (Will Self)

Grey Area is a collection of short stories written by Will Self. Released in 1994, it collects various loosely (if not unconnected) stories.

Stories within[]

Between the Conceits
The Indian Mutiny
A Short History of the English Novel
Incubus
Scale
Chest
Grey Area
Inclusion
The End of the Relationship

Publisher's summary[]

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Grey Area demonstrates Will Self's razor-sharp wit in nine new stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results. "Inclusion®" tells the story of a doctor who is illegally testing a new antidepressant made from bee excrement. "A Short History of the English Novel" brings us face to face with a pompous publisher who is greeted at every turn by countless rejected authors. In "The End of the Relationship" a woman who has been left by her boyfriend provokes — "like some emotional Typhoid Mary" — that same reaction among all the couples she goes to for comfort. The narrator of "Between the Conceits" declares without hesitation that London is controlled by only eight individuals, and, thankfully, he is one of them.

Works of Will Self
Novels and novellas Cock and Bull, My Idea of Fun, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Great Apes, How the Dead Live, Dorian, an Imitation, The Book of Dave, The Butt, Walking to Hollywood, Elaine Umbrella trilogy Umbrella, Shark, Phone Short story collections The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Grey Area, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, The Undivided Self: Selected Stories Nonfiction Junk Mail, Perfidious Man, Sore Sites, Feeding Frenzy, Psychogeography, Psycho Too, The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker, Will, Why Read: Selected Writings 2001–2021 Major and recurring characters Ian Wharton, Mr Broadhurst, Richard Hermes, Bell, Ursula, Simon Dykes, Lily Bloom, Phar Lap Jones, Rude Boy, Dave Rudman, Tom, Sherman Oaks, Zack Busner, Elaine