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The Girl with the Blackened Eye: A 15-year-old girl is forcibly abducted and held hostage for several days in the hands of a serial rapist and killer. Part Two Cumberland Breakdown: After a fire kills their father and their mother becomes reclusive, a girl and her brother go and find the house of the family who started the fire.
Romano contrasts the work in Night-Side with Oates’s earlier short fiction that deals with human suffering: If there's a difference between the strange mental worlds in this volume and those Miss Oates has taken us to before, it is that the pain pervading the new book is peculiarly lonely and private...In Night-Side' s nearly 400 pages, there ...
The reviewer judges the collection “Vintage Oates—always interesting, though not always pleasant.” [5] Publishers Weekly offered a mixed appraisal to the collection, observing that the fiction “offers brilliant bursts of energy that are both dazzling and disappointing for their ephemeral nature” but adding that the stories “reveal a ...
Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.” [5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
First edition Cover art: Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), c.1896 - c.1908 American Gothic Tales is an anthology of "gothic" American short fiction.
A jury found Timothy Williams guilty on all three counts of second-degree murder in the 1984 rape and murder of 14-year-old Wendy Jerome. "Justice delayed was not going to be justice denied for ...
For nearly 50 years, three women have sought the identity of a man who abducted them when they were young teenagers, bound and stabbed them, and left them for dead in an Indiana cornfield in ...
