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Country United States Publication date November 1, 2011 | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 1 November 2011 ISBN 0802126022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & e-book) and Audiobook Pages 264 pp (first edition, hardback) Awards Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Similar Works by Joyce Carol Oates, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is a collection of short stories and novellas by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published in 2011 by Mysterious Press and contains several works that Oates had worked on over a period of fifteen years.
Contents
Synopsis
The book contains the stories The Corn Maiden, Beersheba, Nobody Knows My Name, Fossil-Figures, Death-Cup, Helping Hands, and A Hole in the Head. The story contents range from a group of children planning to sacrifice one of their classmates in The Corn Maiden to a widow interacting with a second-hand store employee in Helping Hands.
Reception
Critical reception for The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares has been positive, with Kirkus Reviews calling the book "nightmarish". Publishers Weekly praised the book, calling Oates "a master of psychological dread" but wrote that the audio book's narrator Christine Williams "lacks the emotional punch and range displayed" by the book's other narrator. The Star Tribune and Bookreporter all praised the book, with Bookreporter praising the book's palpable anxiety.