American Gothic Tales Paperback - 1996
by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor); Various
Featuring contributions by Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and many others, this definitive collection of chilling American fiction includes more than 40 of the best examples of the genre.
Summary
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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- Title American Gothic Tales
- Author Joyce Carol Oates (Editor); Various
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-12-01
- ISBN 9780452274891 / 0452274893
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Horror tales, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96026698
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/1996, Page 480
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/1996, Page 1493
- Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 90
- Publishers Weekly, 11/11/1996, Page 58
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