Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Author: Joyce Carol OatesEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-02-01
ISBN: 0452273749
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: A Wee Much
Summary: 1 Stars
The problem with Joyce Carol Oates' collection Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque is not so much banal characterization and transparent plot as it is the inclusion of the germs of several good stories of innately horrifying human experience into a compilation that reeks genre fiction. An abortion is bad enough without setting it, a la Atwood, in "the second year of The Edict." Baby-boiling is bad enough without 117 "becauses." That, and the urge to make margin notes and return the manuscript saying, "Promising first draft, but way over the top."In the best piece in the collection-the Afterword-Oates says, "One criterion for horror fiction is that we are compelled to read it swiftly, with a rising sense of dread..." Yes'm, swiftly and only once.
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