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Revealing another side of the accomplished writer's unlimited imagination, sixteen tales of the grotesque include "Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly," a reworking of The Turn of the Screw, and the chilling "No Trespassing." Reprint.
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The central haunting of this collection of 16 tales is not anything so concrete as a building haunted by a ghost, but rather the interior haunting of a human being by their ever-shifting sense of self. As Joyce Carol Oates puts it (in a fascinating afterword on the nature and history of the grotesque), "The subjectivity that is the essence of the human is also the mystery that divides us irrevocably from others . . . all others are, in the deepest sense, strangers." These stories, while all dark, cover a range of styles and subjects. Some are vividly violent; several are subtle and/or ironic. The New York Times praised this collection for "pull[ing] off what this author does best: exploring the tricky juncture between tattered social fabric and shaky psyche, while serving up some choice macabre moments."
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Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
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- PublisherPlume
- Publication date1995
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- ISBN 13 9780452273740
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