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Jul 13, 2014
"Author Joyce Carol Oates provides plenty of suspense and dread in each of the tales that compose this disturbing collection. The title novella, "The Corn Maiden," explores the relationship between innocence and evil when an 11-year-old girl disappears. Other stories portray love and sexual attraction gone astray, perverse links between twins, childhood trauma, and sibling rivalry. Oates' powerful examination of darkness in the human psyche will make you "turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises" (Publishers Weekly). If you want more of this prolific author's suspenseful short works, you can find them in The Female of the Species, among others." Thrillers and Suspense July 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/2c47e9e5-d355-491f-87b1-c136ab375b01?postId=36471ee9-07d6-46ed-ba48-5fde3e03c300