Class:
Horror
Common value:
$9.99
Deal value:
$1.99
Deal begins:
March 09, 2023
Deal ends:
March 09, 2023
Seven “masterfully advised” tales of suspense and nightmarish drama from the Nationwide E-book Award–profitable creator of Them (The Guardian).
With the novella and 6 tales collected right here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her singular status for portraying the darkish complexities of the human psyche. The title novella tells the story of Marissa, an eleven-year-old woman with hair the colour of corn silk. When she out of the blue disappears, mounting proof factors to an area substitute trainer. In the meantime, an older woman from Melissa’s faculty is giddy together with her energy to trigger a lot havoc unnoticed. And he or she intends to make use of that energy to enact a terrifying ritual known as The Corn Maiden.
In “Serving to Palms,” printed right here for the primary time, a widow meets an Iraq Conflict veteran in a dingy charity store, having no thought the place the peculiar encounter is about to steer. In “Fossil-Figures,” a pair of twins—an artist and a congressman—by no means outgrow an unsightly sibling rivalry. And in “A Gap within the Head,” a plastic surgeon provides in to an uncommon and harmful request.
Collectively, these seven tales provide “a virtuoso efficiency” of “probing, unsettling, clever” storytelling from one of many world’s best writers of suspense (The Guardian).
“The seven tales on this stellar assortment from the prolific Oates might immediate the reader to activate all of the lights or soar at imagined noises. . . . This quantity burnishes [her] status as a grasp of psychological dread.” —Publishers Weekly, starred evaluate
“For horror tales to be actually horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing, and delivers with model.” —The Impartial
“Additional affirmation of a novel author’s stressed, preternatural brilliance.” —The Guardian
