{"product_id":"night-gaunts-and-other-tales-of-suspense-paperback","title":"Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom a master \"mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e), this gorgeously eerie story collection explores the deepest entwinings of lust and repulsion, creation and dissolution, Eros and Thanatos.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the title story of her taut new fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eNight-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense\u003c\/em\u003e, Joyce Carol Oates writes: \u003cem\u003eLife was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eEleven A.M., 1926\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband's latest conquest? In \"The Sign of the Beast,\" when a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder--but is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in \"Night-Gaunts,\" a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReveling in the uncanny and richly in conversation with other creative minds, \u003cem\u003eNight-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense\u003c\/em\u003e stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing--and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOYCE CAROL OATES\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of such national bestsellers as \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include \u003cem\u003eNight-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, \u003c\/em\u003e which features \"The Woman in the Window,\" selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; \u003cem\u003eThe Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; \u003cem\u003eThe Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Horror Fiction; and \u003cem\u003eJack of Spades\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003ethem \u003c\/em\u003eand the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380381925554,"sku":"9780802129666","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/dab24b10270bb07d1c2c6561714153b3.webp?v=1777782634","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/night-gaunts-and-other-tales-of-suspense-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}