NightGaunts and Other Tales of Suspe..., Joyce Carol Oates
NightGaunts and Other Tales of Suspe..., Joyce Carol Oates
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Tim Campbell, Xe Sands

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2018


Synopsis

The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In "The Long-Legged Girl," an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgewood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband's latest conquest? In "The Sign of the Beast," when a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder—but is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in "Night-Gaunts," a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Diane on 2020-05-06 01:34:36

Terrible reading. Xe Sands has to be the worst commercial reader there ever was. A friend and I tried this book, and he said " I can't get any of the words". She mumbles, her diction is not clear, and on top of that, she reads too fast. I deleted it from my library unread.

Goodreads review by Martie

Pub. Date:          June 15, 2018 Publisher:          Grove Atlantic Genre:                 Psychological Thriller Joyce Carol Oates is a literary powerhouse. A recurring theme in her work is the abuse of women: “Do With Me What You Will,” 1973, “We Were the Mulvaneys,” 2002, “The Gravedigger's Daughte......more

Goodreads review by Meike

My first Joyce Carol Oates, and it immediately becomes clear why this woman is a much-lauded writer: She is a master of psychological exploration, and her unsettling storylines are prowling forward while there is always something boiling below the surface, something the reader can’t quite pin down a......more