A Darker Shade of Noir, Joyce Carol Oates
A Darker Shade of Noir, Joyce Carol Oates
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A Darker Shade of Noir
New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Bianca Amato, Lynnette R. Freeman, Eva Kaminsky, Nancy Wu

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/13/2024

Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.

While the common belief is that “body horror” as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snakehaired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the “quintessential emblem of female body horror.” In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marjorie on September 23, 2023

As with any short story collection, there were some that I could have done without; however, most were very well done and a few were downright scary! Some very well-known authors are in here, like Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood. I also discovered some new-to-me authors that I'll be looking in......more

Goodreads review by Devon on October 09, 2023

I really enjoyed reading this! I thought the beginning section was the strongest, with only one or two stories from the other sections that I really liked. My favs: “Dancing” by Tananarive Due “Scarlet Ribbons” by Megan Abbot “Metempsychosis, or the journey of the soul” by Margaret Atwood “Nemesis” by......more

Goodreads review by Josée Leon on October 24, 2023

About 3.5 ⭐ overall. This anthology includes some great stories by women encompassing various forms of body horror. As expected, some are very disgusting. The majority were quite interesting and unique. Out of 15 stories, there are only 5 I didn't really care for. My favourite stories were by Tananariv......more

Goodreads review by Ella on February 18, 2024

Very good selection! My favourite was Metampsychosis or Malena The things some people come up with!!! Crazy!!!......more

Goodreads review by Ruvi on April 05, 2024

These are "body horror" stories in the loosest sense of the concept. Much of what's going on here is descriptions of decaying bodies or rotting, pustulent wounds—which is gross, sure, but doesn't really play upon the abject or inspire significant discomfort in the way that body horror should. A few......more

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