The Doll-Master: And Other Tales of Terror

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Synopsis
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
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780802189936
Related ISBNs:
9780802126719
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
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Copyrighted By:
The Ontario Review, Inc.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Horror, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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