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This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is “certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes “Big Momma,” a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story Here are six of Joyce Carol Oates's most “frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after her tragic death. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from surrounding neighborhoods... each with its own sinister significance. In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is delighted to house-sit for her favorite teacher, until an intruder forces his way inside—changing more than one life forever. The collection closes with the taut tale of a mystery bookstore owner whose designs on a rare bookshop in scenic New Hampshire devolve into a menacing game with real-life consequences. “At the heart of each story is a predator-prey relationship, and what makes them so terrifying is that most of us can easily picture ourselves as the prey, at least at some time during our lives” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Everything she writes, in whatever genre, has

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Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

New York: The Mysterious Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784971014

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Thriller, Horror

Rating

3.37 / 5 (661 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13