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Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque Book

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. As Joyce Carol Oates puts it (in a fascinating afterword on the nature and history of the grotesque), "The subjectivity that is the essence of the human is also the mystery that divides us irrevocably from others . . . all others are, in the deepest sense, strangers." These stories, while all dark, cover a range of styles and subjects. Some are vividly violent; several are subtle and/or ironic. The New York Times praised this collection for "pull[ing] off what this author does best: exploring the tricky juncture between tattered social fabric and shaky psyche, while serving up some choice macabre moments."Read More

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  • Product Description

    Revealing another side of the accomplished writer's unlimited imagination, sixteen tales of the grotesque include ""Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly,"" a reworking of The Turn of the Screw, and the chilling ""No Trespassing."" Reprint. NYT.

  • 0452273749
  • 9780452273740
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1 February 1995
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • Reprint
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