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Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they? In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is thrilled when her favorite teacher asks her to house-sit, even on short notice....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The central haunting of this collection of 16 tales is not anything so concrete as a building haunted by a ghost, but rather the interior haunting of a human being by their ever-shifting sense of self.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
xii, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In these twenty-five gothic horror tales from the master of the short story, Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide-open, facing what the bravest of us fear the most. From the Kafka-esque "Scars" to a balladlike tale of erotic obsession in "The Crossing," to the mother-daughter bond given a fatal twist in "Death Mother," the stories in The Collector of Hearts illuminate the mysteries of the human experience -- both...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
[This] is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella--in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine--through to 'The Surviving Child'--which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw...
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