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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares Paperback - 2012

by Joyce Carol Oates

The powerful stories in this extraordinary collectionNincluding OThe Corn MaidenO and the never-before-published OHelping HandsONfurther enhance six-time National Book Award nominee Oates' standing as one of the world's greatest writers of suspense.


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  • Title The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mysterious Press
  • Date 2012-12-11
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780802155085 / 0802155081
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Halloween
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, which won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Horror Fiction; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

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