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American Gothic Tales
by Oates, Joyce Carol, Editor
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0452274893
- ISBN 13
- 9780452274891
- Seller
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West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Plume, 1996. Oates collects some gothic stories from the colonial era to present. VERY GOOD COPY, UNCORRECTED PROOF, some wrinkling to cover, and some sunning on spine, still VG.. Very Good/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PittCo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000968
- Title
- American Gothic Tales
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol, Editor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452274893
- ISBN 13
- 9780452274891
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Short Stories, Scary Stores, Ghost Stories, Mystery Fiction
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