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American Gothic Tales
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"Many of the writers in this volume are not 'gothic' writers but simply--writers. Their inclusion here is meant to suggest the richness and magnitude of the gothic-grotesque vision and the inadequacy of genre labels if by 'genre' is meant mere formula." So writes Joyce Carol Oates in a historical introduction to this anthology of 46 tales--tales that s... »
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The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
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While agreeing with fans of Joyce Carol Oates that her prose and general writing style are second to none, this collection of macabre stories failed to please. Perhaps the stories are just TOO unpleasant and, although I'm as sure as can be that I'll be condemned as precious and unworthy to understand such a brilliant writer, I still choose to risk run... »
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The Dark Descent
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If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict their reading to books and stories given a horror category label, thus missing some of the finest pleasures in that fictional mode," David G. Hartwell assembles here 56 important tales within an insightfu... »
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Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (P.S.)
If you're just getting into Lovecraft, this is, without a doubt, the best way to get started with your favorite old god, Cthulhu. It contains a perfect li... »
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Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
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 hu... »
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The Collector of Hearts
The Collector of Hearts is an eerie, powerfully strange collection of classic Oates narratives. Few of the stories are blatantly horrific, altho... »
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Beasts
Penzler Pick, January 2002: OK, OK. I know it looks like a conflict of interest, or favoritism, or nepotism, or some -ism or another that appears... »
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Night-Side
Oates' darkest collection and probably her best. These stories range in setting from 1880's Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 1970's California and are concern... »
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