Full name: The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Horror, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780525944454 9780452280243 0452280249

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. Similar books: Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson The Consumer by M. Gira Rhoda by Ellen Gilchrist The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks Pack of Cards by Penelope Lively Collected Short Stories by E. M. Forster Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey You Think That's Bad by Jim Shepard Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz In Case We're Separated by Alice Mattison A Model World by Michael Chabon Bed by Tao Lin Cloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir Nabokov American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates Haunted by Joyce Carol Oates