The Doll Master And Other Tales Of Horror

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802189938
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doll-Master written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an air of dread, because she deals in vulnerabilities and inevitabilities, in the desperate needs that drive people . . . to their fates. A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around.” —Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review “One of the stranger parts of the human condition may be our deep fascination, and at times troubling exploration, of the darker aspects of our nature . . . No other author explores the ugly, and at times, blazingly unapologetic underbelly of these impulses quite like Joyce Carol Oates in The Doll-Master.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “In her new collection . . . [Oates] relishes moments of gothic melodrama, while rooting them firmly in grindingly ordinary American lives.” —The Guardian “Oates convincingly demonstrates her mastery of the macabre with this superlative story collection . . . This devil’s half-dozen of dread and suspense is a must read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784971021
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Horror written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge... A white man shoots dead a black youth creating a media frenzy. But could it have been self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her... These quietly lethal stories reveal the horrors that dwell within us all.

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765376806
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doll Collection written by Ellen Datlow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146287
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night-Gaunts written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Oates’ spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.”―Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, 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 demonstrated in these six stories. One tale 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 Wedgwood 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? And 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. “Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.”―Kirkus Reviews

Author : Joel R. Dennstedt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542546607
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Dolls Talk written by Joel R. Dennstedt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bad world infects our own with wicked ways. This dreadful dimension spawns stories from intruders in our midst. Creatures we call dolls tell awful tales to make us weep, to make us cringe, to make us suffer. The horror...when dolls begin to talk.

Author : M. R. James
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473379172
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted Dolls' House (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802147925
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, “a compelling domestic horror story” of a new bride haunted by childhood nightmares (Kirkus Reviews). Less than twenty-four hours after exchanging vows with her new husband, Willem, Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine whether this was an absentminded accident or a premeditated plunge, and he quickly discovers a mysterious set of clues about what his wife might be hiding. Why, for example is there a rash-like red mark circling her wrist? What does she dream about that causes her to wake from the sound of her own screams? Slowly, Abby begins to open up to her husband, revealing to him what she has never shared with anyone before—a story of a terrified mother; a jealous, drug-addled father; a daughter’s terrifying captivity; and the demons behind her terrible recurring dreams of wandering through a field ridden with human skulls and bones… From a recipient of a National Book Award and three Bram Stoker Awards, this suspenseful, twisting tale, named one of the scariest books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, is a “fast-paced examination of the destructive and restorative nature of obsessive love” (Booklist).

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802158013
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cardiff, by the Sea written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly). An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she’s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for “great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Author : Charlotte Zolotow
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064430677
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William's Doll written by Charlotte Zolotow and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doll written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: