Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
520 "The Woman in the Window"...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 Wedgewood 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? 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802128102 (hc)
- Physical Description: 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The woman in the window-- The long-legged girl-- Sign of the beast-- The experimental subject-- Walking wounded-- Night-gaunts. |
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Subject: | Short stories, American. Violence > Fiction Lust > Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. Short stories. |
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