The DollMaster, Joyce Carol Oates
The DollMaster, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Doll-Master
And Other Tales of Terror

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Robert Fass, Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories.

In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?

In Gun Accident, a teenage girl is thrilled when her favorite teacher asks her to house-sit, even on short notice. But when an intruder forces his way into the house while the girl is there, the fate of more than one life is changed forever.

In Equatorial, set in the exotic Galápagos, an affluent American wife experiences disorienting assaults on her sense of who her charismatic husband really is, and what his plans may be for her.

In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.

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 Olethros on December 15, 2021

-Más horror que terror, al menos a ojos de este lector, pero la diferencia carece de verdadera importancia.- Género. Relatos. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro El señor de las muñecas y otros cuentos de terror (publicación original: The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, 2016) es una recopilación de re......more

Goodreads review by Ana on June 15, 2021

Mi relato favorito fue "Accidente por arma de fuego "......more

Goodreads review by Althea on February 07, 2017

**** The Doll-Master (Previously read in "The Doll Collection." Re-read.) While, in general, I don't think that there's anything wrong with little boys playing with dolls, there's certainly something quite, quite wrong with this specific boy playing with dolls. **** Soldier Powerful, disturbing story.......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on October 12, 2016

This is an impressive collection of dark and twisted tales; I simply couldn't have asked for more! "The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror" contains six short stories which are all cleverly written in such a way that makes you unable to see what is coming. I loved it! Some of the stories are very......more