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Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.

Title:

The doll-master : and other tales of terror / Joyce Carol Oates.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

The Mysterious Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

317 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Grotesque--Fiction.
Short stories.
Horror tales.

Other Authors:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Short stories. Selections.

Contents:

Mystery, Inc.. Soldier -- Gun accident: an investigation -- Equatorial -- Big momma -- Mystery, Inc..

Summary:

Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge...A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her...These quietly lethal stories reveal the horrors that dwell within us all.

ISBN:

0802124887
9780802124883

LCCN:

bl2016012274

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