Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: "Oates' spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute."―Booklist

In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself—as demonstrated...