About the Author

JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, which won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Horror Fiction; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Praise for Corn Maiden: "For horror stories to be truly horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing, and delivers with style." --The Independent on Sunday (UK) "In taut tales, the prolific Oates renders a world terrifying and utterly familiar . . . Oates is not only a prolific writer but a fine one--entertaining, skillful, always writing with one finger on the cultural pulse, often brilliantly so." --Boston Globe "The seven stories in this stellar collection from the prolific Oates may prompt the reader to turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises. This volume burnishes Oates's reputation as a master of psychological dread." --Publishers Weekly "While the shadows of Poe and Hitchcock loom over these tales, it's clear that Oates herself is a master at creeping out her readers." --Kirkus Reviews "Oates's voice is strong and unique; the words come at the reader in a rushed and breathy fashion but remain elegant and well-chosen. She is a master at balancing the shaky or unstable viewpoint of her subjects with a cool intellectual narrative style." --Bookreporter "What is most compelling about the works here: our worst fears, realized, nearly always result from our deepest vulnerabilities." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Praise for Joyce Carol Oates: "Oates is just a fearless writer . . . with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers." --Los Angeles Times "If the phrase "woman of letters' existed, Joyce Carol Oates would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it." --John Updike "What keeps us coming back to Oates country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was life itself." --The New York Times Book Review "Her genius happens to be giant." --The Washington Post Book World "Joyce Carol Oates is one of the great writers of our time." --John Gardner "No living American writer echoes the chord of dread plucked by Edgar Allan Poe quite like Joyce Carol Oates. There is something rotten, possibly even evil, pulsing away at the heart of her short fiction. . . .Oates is a master of suspense." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)