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The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque

In these twenty-five gothic horror tales from the master of the short story, Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide-open, facing what the bravest of us fear the most. From the Kafka-esque "Scars" to a ballad like tale of erotic obsession in "The Crossing, " to the mother-daughter bond given a fatal twist in "Death Mother" the stories in The Collector of Hearts illuminate the mysteries of the human experience — both intellectual and visceral. It is a stunning and richly diverse anthology of mood and menace — haunting, elegiac, and compulsively readable.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780452280243
  • Genres
  • horror, fiction, gothic, american, collections, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1999