Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000HWZ3XK |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary Akers said Poe did it better. My main complaint with Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque was that the Afterword was not placed in the Foreword position. Had I known beforehand what the author's definition of grotesque was, I would have done much less grumbling while reading. But what I was expecting (raised as I was on the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the works of Poe and Hawthorne) was work that was more suspenseful and hair-raising and less merely bizarre.During the majority . Erin Reeve said Shipped quickly, exactly as advertised! Loving the book. Shipped quickly, exactly as advertised! Loving the book - it's very dark but understated and leaves plenty of room for imagination.. Not her best, but still pretty good. Joyce Carol Oates, Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Dutton, 199Not her best, but still pretty good. Robert Beveridge Joyce Carol Oates, Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Dutton, 1994)I've been a fan of Joyce Carol Oates for coming up on twenty years now. I was first introduced to her through her short fiction ("The Rose Wall", published in the inaugural issue of the sadly-defunct Twilight Zone magazine, to this day the best publication of its kind), and I've always had a soft spot for her "weird" fiction because of that; this was a book that was right up my al. )I've been a fan of Joyce Carol Oates for coming up on twenty years now. I was first introduced to her through her short fiction ("The Rose Wall", published in the inaugural issue of the sadly-defunct Twilight Zone magazine, to this day the best publication of its kind), and I've always had a soft spot for her "weird" fiction because of that; this was a book that was right up my al
Sixteen neo-gothic tales of horror, the grotesque, and the dark side of the human imagination focus on the themes of violence in American society and the exploitation of women and children.
The New York Times praised this collection for "pulling off what this author does best: exploring the tricky juncture between tattered social fabric and shaky psyche, while serving up some choice macabre moments." . Some are vividly violent; several are subtle and/or ironic. 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