Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802128102 (hc)
- Physical Description: 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The woman in the window-- The long-legged girl-- Sign of the beast-- The experimental subject-- Walking wounded-- Night-gaunts. |
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Subject: | Short stories, American. Violence > Fiction Lust > Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC OAT (Text) | 35246000954576 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An eerie story collection by the award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys explores the deepest sources of disturbed human minds with such entries as "The Long-Legged Girl" and "The Sign of the Beast." - Baker & Taylor
A collection of short stories includes "The Sign of the Beast," in which a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up and an adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder. - Baker & Taylor
"The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In "The Long-Legged Girl," an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgewood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband's latest conquest? In "The Sign of the Beast," when a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder--but is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in "Night-Gaunts," a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. Reveling in the uncanny and richly in conversation with other creative minds, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing--and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves"-- - Perseus Publishing
From a master âmind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed mindsâ (New York Times Book Review), this gorgeously eerie story collection explores the deepest entwinings of lust and repulsion, creation and dissolution, Eros and Thanatos - Perseus Publishing
In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herselfâas brilliantly demonstrated in these six stories.The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopperâs Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In âThe Long-Legged Girl,â an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgewood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husbandâs latest conquest? In âThe Sign of the Beast,â when a former Sunday school teacherâs corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murderâbut is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in âNight-Gaunts,â a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft.
Reveling in the uncanny and richly in conversation with other creative minds, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longingâand asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves.