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    Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

    By Joyce Carol Oates

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  • Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most revered contemporary American writers, having won numerous awards and selling millions of copies.

  • Oates’s collections for The Mysterious Press continue to garner more and more awards attention: "The Woman in the Window" from Night-Gaunts has already been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; “The Crawl Space” from DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense won the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story. The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, and included the story “Big Momma,” which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story. Her first collection for The Mysterious Press, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, also won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.

  • Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense is a gloriously creepy collection of six stories, previously published by One Story, The Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

  • Oates's short novel Jack of Spades was named one of the Seattle Times’s 10 best mysteries of the year and a Publishers Weekly top 10 mystery & thriller for spring 2015.

  • Oates continues to make waves on social media, amassing over 180k Twitter followers.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysterious Press
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9780802146281
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    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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    • 4/5
      These weren't the greatest of Oates' short stories but they were good. The Long-Legged Girl, I just know must be inspired by the relationship of Shirley Jackson and her husband Stanley. The Experiment Subject was one of the most disturbing stories I think I've ever read.
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      The first story, “The Woman in the Window”, opens with a naked woman sitting in a window waiting for her married lover. Is there still love in her heart for this man or has it turned to hatred? Have her feelings for her remained the same?In “The Long-Legged Girl”, a woman has decided to play Russian roulette with poisoned tea with her husband’s beautiful dance student.“Sign of the Beast” is a disturbing tale of a young boy who Sunday School teacher shows him unwanted attention.In “Walking Wounded”, a man working on a well-known author’s posthumous work keeps finding erotic references that seem to reflect what’s happening in his own life.The title story, “Night-Gaunts”, explores the damnation of heredity is such a frightening way.If I had to pick a favorite out of all of these unique stories, it would be “The Experimental Subject”. This is a nightmarish story about a lab technician who lures a naïve, unattractive young woman to be the unknowing recipient of a chimpanzee’s sperm in the hopes that she will give birth to the first “Humanzee”. I have never been disappointed by the work of Joyce Carol Oates and she certainly doesn’t let her readers down with this selection of short stories. They are some of the most unusual, creative, horrific stories I’ve ever read. If you like your stories all neatly tied up at the end, these won’t be your cup of tea. Most of the stories leave the reader hanging but I actually enjoy wondering what happened and letting my imagination fill in the blanks. This is an excellent selection of horror tales from an author who just keeps improving.Most highly recommended.This book was given to me by the publisher in return for an honest review.