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"In the twenty-five uncommon stories collected here, intense emotions erupt into extremes of expression, and ordinary men and women are smothered by the embrace of the macabre."
Read some years ago - can't recall much except that a large chunk is taken up by a very striking novella by Joyce Carol Oates, "The Virgin in the Rose Bower". My main 'take' from this collection was a determination to follow up other fiction by Oates, which I have, at the time of writing, began to read. ( )
Book Description: New York, NY, Barnes & Noble, 2002. trade paperback in fine condition. This is not a library copy but a new book purchased from a large lot of new books that have been in storage.
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Look through the fiction of any writer and chances are you'll find at least one tale of the macabre.
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When Old Lethy found her, she had fallen forward into the barrel, with her poor ladylike black-stockinged legs up-ended and hung apart like a pair of tongs.
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Short stories in anthology:
Death by Landscape by Margaret Atwood The July Ghost by A.S. Byatt The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier Fleur by Louise Erdrich Up North by Mavis Gallant Letter From His Father by Nadine Gordimer The Pond by Patricia Highsmith The Butler Catcher by A.M. Homes The Summer People by Shirley Jackson Ovando by Jamaica Kincaid Poor Little Saturday by Madeleine L'Engle The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Plants and Girls by Doris Lessing Another Halloween by Alison Lurie The Parallel World by Valerie Martin Number 10 by Edna O'Brien The River by Flannery O'Connor The Virgin in the Rose-Bower, or the Tragedy of Glen Mawr Manor by Joyce Carol Oates The Dreadful Day of Judgement by Ruth Rendell A Spiritualist by Jean Rhys The Dummy by Susan Sontag The Girl I Left Behind Me by Muriel Spark Spirit of the House by Fay Weldon Clytie by Eudora Welty
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"In the twenty-five uncommon stories collected here, intense emotions erupt into extremes of expression, and ordinary men and women are smothered by the embrace of the macabre."