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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 herself—as 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 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... All Identifiers : isbn:9780802146281 Number of Words in Auth: 3 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Single Author : Joyce Carol Oates Original Source : Train_Pack_2018-58 S

Who reads Night-Gaunts : And Other Tales of Suspense?

Author

Oates, Joyce Carol

Publisher

The Mysterious Press an imprint of Grove Atlantic

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802128102

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Horror

Rating

4.1 / 5 (178 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14