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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is a collection of short stories and the title novella by Joyce Carol Oates. Published in 2011 by Mysterious Press , it contains several works that Oates worked on over a period of fifteen years.
- Joyce Carol Oates
- 264 pp (first edition, hardback)
- 2011
- November 1, 2011
Jan 1, 2011 · 3.39. 2,562 ratings395 reviews. An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk.
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Dec 27, 2012 · It is a tale of teens gone bad, taking a sometimes intimate, sometimes eagle-eye view of a student kidnapping. Leah Bantry's daughter Marissa is abducted by fellow student Jude Trahern and her...
Dec 6, 2011 · Seven “masterfully told” stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award–winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her singular reputation for portraying the dark complexities of the human psyche.
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- 2011
- Joyce Carol Oates
- $14.99
English. A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
Seven “masterfully told” stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award–winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol...
Nov 1, 2011 · In these seven stories, Oates examines the fragility of the human mind as well as the human propensity for destruction. The title story, and by far the longest, “The Corn Maiden” tells the tale of the kidnapping of 11-year-old Marissa Bantry by three 13-year-old schoolmates.
