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This novel-length story collection includes Melissa Marr's 2019 and 2020 short fiction (all previously published in magazines, anthology, or ebook), including the new Wicked Lovely Stories "Love Hurts", "Summer Bound", and "Winter Dreams", as well as "Nameless", "Changing Guards", "The Devil's Due", and "Knee Deep in the Sea" and "Of Roses and Kings."

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 silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors.

Teodosia una bella joven se disfraza de chico para poder ir a buscar a Marco Antonio, su esposo que desapareció justamente después de la boda. Los azares del destino quieren que confíe sin saberlo en su propio hermano Rafael.Juntos continúan la búsqueda y en su camino a Barcelona donde creen se encuentra Marco Antonio, tropiezan con un grupo de personas que han sido robadas por los bandoleros.