Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
The central haunting of this collection of 16 tales is not anything so concrete as a building haunted by a ghost, but rather the interior haunting of a human being by their ever-shifting sense of self. As Joyce Carol Oates puts it (in a fascinating afterword on the nature and history of the...
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The central haunting of this collection of 16 tales is not anything so concrete as a building haunted by a ghost, but rather the interior haunting of a human being by their ever-shifting sense of self. As Joyce Carol Oates puts it (in a fascinating afterword on the nature and history of the grotesque), "The subjectivity that is the essence of the human is also the mystery
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN:
9780451185723 (0451185722)
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Americana,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Gothic,
Ghosts,
Dark,
Short Story Collection