Joyce Carol Oates

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors....

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.” —Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one...

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. In the title story, "Evil Eye," a young woman has recently become the fourth wife of a highly demanding man. When his first wife comes to...

This tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy....

Quentin P_ è un enigma per i suoi genitori, anche se non credono affatto all'accusa di molestie sessuali mossa da un minore nei suoi...

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

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...

Il vecchio John Earle “Whitey” McClaren, è l'ex sindaco repubblicano di Hammond, editore, pubblicitario e patriarca di una famiglia di cinque figli...

Perturbadora novela, ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker a mejor novela de terror en 1995, en la que nos adentramos en la psique de un asesino en serie obsesionado con crear su propio zombi...

Campi di segale sotto il sole abbacinante dell'Arkansas. Le mani strappano i frutti dalla terra, la terra prude e si mangia le mani. I...

Tutti ammirano i Mulvaney, tutti li invidiano. Sono un clan chiassoso e allegro, una famiglia perfetta; la loro fattoria nel nord dello...

Nell Ryder is a sardonic and urbane school teacher transplanted to small-town Michigan in Joyce Carol Oates’ play. But when she gets into a dispute with an aggrieved parent, Nell finds herself accused of impropriety with one of her adolescent charges....

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume....

Qualcosa di oscuro si agita dietro gli abbaini della villa di Labyrinth Drive, e nessuno steccato bianco, nessun filo di perle, nessun...

Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eye to Tobias Harte, a man obsessed with perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad....

A girl comes of age with a vengeance - and help from a friend - in a tale of unnerving suspense from National Book Award winner and literary master Joyce Carol Oates....

This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective on prison literature....

The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances....

The Key and Tone Clusters are two one-act plays by 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates....

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, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn...