<div>&ldquo;A gem&rdquo; of a collection of marijuana stories, poems and artwork by Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and others (New York Journal of Books). It&rsquo;s known by many names: Pot. Grass. Hash. Hemp. Reefer. Ganja. Dope. Weed. Smoke. Spliff. Mary Jane. Tea. Blunt. And it has played just as many parts in the mind of the public, from Reefer Madness to medical marijuana. Here is a collection of new works as diverse and provocative as the drug itself. From Joyce Carol Oates&rsquo;s &ldquo;High&rdquo; to Dean Haspiel&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cannibal Sativa&rdquo;; from Maggie Estep&rsquo;s &ldquo;Zombie Hookers of Hudson&rdquo; to Philip Spitzer&rsquo;s &ldquo;Tips for the Pot-Smoking Traveler,&rdquo; this collection explores the drug in its many forms and varietals. In prose, pictures, stories, and poems, you can delve into the folklore and the facts, rich cultural history, and dramas personal, political, spiritual, and legal. Like Dave Chappelle says: &ldquo;Hey, hey, hey. Smoke weed every day.&rdquo; </div>

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<div>&ldquo;A sobering experience . . . The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage, despair, and madness.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective on prison literature. From a killer&rsquo;s confession to a desire for redemption, from stories of new cell mates to prison snitches, this collection of tales runs the gamut of emotions, settings, and voices. Readers are drawn into an unknown world and left with feelings of horror, compassion, and even understanding. Edited by renowned author Joyce Carol Oates, who has led various writing workshops in correctional institutions across America, Prison Noir features stories by Christopher M. Stephen, Sin Soracco, Scott Gutches, Eric Boyd, Ali F. Sareini, Stephen Geez, B.M. Dolarman, Zeke Caligiuri, Marco Verdoni, Kenneth R. Brydon, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Andre White, Timothy Pauley, Bryan K. Palmer, and William Van Poyck. &ldquo;These are stories that resonate with authenticity and verve and pain and truth. Any collection edited by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author Oates deserves attention, but the contributors are deft and confident, and great writers without her imprimatur . . . Authentic, powerful, visceral, moving, great writing.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;All the stories, set within jailhouse walls, explore anguish, lunacy, and sometimes, a desire for redemption. Others offer an unsettling and unvarnished look at life in the clink . . . Perhaps most importantly, the book gives inmates a voice: their own.&rdquo; &mdash;Fine Books &amp; Collections</div>

Prison Noir

<div>A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors. Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more. With stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood (poems), Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A. Solomon, S.J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha. Praise for Cutting Edge “The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates gathers a strong list of names . . . . Emerging and established authors provide attention-grabbing short works: especially notable are Edwidge Danticat's story on the quotidian horror of domestic violence, Bernice L. McFadden’s comic take on the appropriation of racial friendship, and Lisa Lim’s illustrations of a grotesque marriage.” —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine “But of course, in the end, it isn't the themes or the innovations on the format of the short story anthology that make the tales collected in Cutting Edge most “feel” as if you were reading Joyce Carol Oates herself. It is the writing. The tight plots and fresh, flowing prose that go about their business until—snap!—the story’s well-oiled mousetrap does its job.” —New York Journal of Books “The 15 stories and six poems in this slim yet weighty all-original noir anthology . . . are razor-sharp and relentless in their portrayal of life, offering snapshots of dysfunction, everyday toil, and brief joy. It is unusual, however, in its scope, zeroing in not only on what the female characters endure but what they dish out . . . . Each story sears but does not cauterize, leaving protagonists and readers raw . . . . Fans of contemporary crime fiction won’t want to miss this one.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

Cutting Edge

<div>Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the hidden dirt of the Garden State. Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White &amp; Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Pulitzer Prize–winner Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg &amp; Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. Praise for New Jersey Noir “Oates’s introduction to Akashic’s noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book . . . Highlights include Lou Manfredo’s “Soul Anatomy,” in which a politically connected rookie cop is involved in a fatal shooting in Camden; S.J. Rozan’s “New Day Newark,” in which an elderly woman takes a stand against two drug-dealing gangs; and Jonathan Santlofer’s “Lola,” in which a struggling Hoboken artist finds his muse . . . . Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others—plus photos by Gerald Slota—enhance this distinguished entry.” —Publishers Weekly “It was inevitable that this fine noir series would reach New Jersey. It took longer than some readers might have wanted, but, oh boy, was it worth the wait . . . More than most of the entries in the series, this volume is about mood and atmosphere more than it is about plot and character . . . It should go without saying that regular readers of the noir series will seek this one out, but beyond that, the book also serves as a very good introduction to what is a popular but often misunderstood term and style of writing.” —Booklist, Starred Review “A lovingly collected assortment of tales and poems that range from the disturbing to the darkly humorous.” —Shelf Awareness</div>

New Jersey Noir

<div>Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animals&mdash;and the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. Cultural mythologies and pantheons are populated with snakes, monkeys, cats, jackals, whales: a cast of characters whose stories reveal how complex and wildly contradictory our species&rsquo; relationship with other animals is. They&rsquo;re friends, enemies, tools, food. Descartes deliberated about whether animals have souls, deciding they didn&rsquo;t. Linnaeus cataloged them. Darwin connected us to them. Wild or tame, sinless or soulless, the animal is a chimera of shifting identities, both mundane and mysterious. Featuring interviews with William S. Burroughs and Temple Grandin, essays by animal experimenters Vint Virga and Dale Peterson, fiction by Russell Banks and Joyce Carol Oates, and work by many others, this collection of imaginative new writing offers uncaged access to the lives of the nonhuman creatures that surround us.</div>

A Menagerie

<div>New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more. In Natural Causes, a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of nature writing, we encounter shrimp farms and spoonbills, maize husks and Austrian woods, tarantulas and eels, multitudinous winds that pollinate or desiccate&mdash;nature in all its myriad forms, right down to photons, neutrons, neutrinos, and, yes, even Godzilla, the Sasquatch, and some of nature&rsquo;s other fictive and folkloric monsters.</div>

Overdrive

Natural Causes

<div>Essays, fiction, and poetry reflecting on truth and illusion in a world filled with deceptions both treacherous and benign. Children deceive, as do grownups, and many are the moments when all of us even deceive ourselves. People of every age and stripe, whether rarely or often, dissimulate, bluff, and beguile. The writer who fabricates and populates worlds is a deceiver, as is the artist whose triumph is to trick the eye, to alter perception. The honest magician&#39;s livelihood is based on deception; so is the dishonest thief&#39;s. And consider the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva who wrote, &quot;A deception that elevates us is dearer than a legion of low truths,&quot; thus complicating the subject entirely. This special issue of Conjunctions gathers a wide spectrum of essays, fiction, and poetry on the classic subject of deception, exploring in original and thought-provoking ways a world in which truth is a most fragile, elaborate, and mercurial thing. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Terese Svoboda, Yannick Murphy, Paul Hoover, Bim Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Magdalena Zyzak, and many others.</div>

Sleights of Hand

<div>New writings on the topic of friendship from Stephen O&rsquo;Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Clark, Elizabeth Gaffney, Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke, and more. Aristotle proposed that a friend is, in essence, &ldquo;another self,&rdquo; and it is indisputable that our relationships with our friends are nearly as complex as the ones we have with ourselves: One minute we&rsquo;re in perfect accord, another we&rsquo;re uncertain. Friendships are as mercurial as they are essential. We form friendships that are fraught, friendships that fade, and friendships that are as important to us as our very lives. Conjunctions: 66, Affinity investigates the phenomenon of friendship in its many forms through innovative and provocative fiction, poetry, and essays by writers of every ilk. This collection includes contributions by Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke, Robert Coover, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Elizabeth Gaffney, Andrew Ervin, Stephen O&rsquo;Connor, Gilles Tiberghien, Michelle Herman, Robert Clark, Jonathan Carroll, Sallie Tisdale, Robert Duncan, Jedediah Berry and Emily Houk, Diane Josefowicz, Brandon Hobson, Charles B. Strozier, Spencer Matheson, Paul Lisicky, John Ashbery, J. W. McCormack, Isabella Hammad, Tim Horvath, Roberta Allen, M. J. Rey, Elizabeth Robinson, Matthew Cheney, and Joyce Carol Oates.</div>

Affinity

<div>New writings&mdash;on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us&mdash;from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and pass through shape our memories and perceptions, often without our conscious awareness. These stories, essays, and poems from a wide variety of contributors draw on our sense of place to explore the literal and metaphorical meanings of the roofs over our heads, the walls that protect&mdash;and separate&mdash;us from others, and the caves and castles that humans have made their homes throughout history. Like the best architecture, they combine form and function in a beautiful balance. Conjunctions:68, Inside Out includes original work by Joanna Scott, Andrew Mossin, Claude Simon, Cole Swensen, Robert Clark, Kathryn Davis, Elizabeth Robinson, Gabriel Blackwell, Monica Datta, Robert Kelly, Mary South, Brandon Hobson, Lance Olsen, Susan Daitch, Ryan Call, Nathaniel Mackey, Ann Lauterbach, Can Xue, Matt Reeck, Lisa Horiuchi, Elaine Equi, Robert Coover, G. C. Waldrep, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Lenhart, Mark Irwin, Justin Noga, Karen Hays, John Madera, Karen Hueler, and Frederic Tuten.</div>

Inside Out

<div>From the author of Bellefleur: A &ldquo;psychologically incisive&rdquo; glimpse into the mind of a deranged predator and the boy he abducts to be his son (Booklist). Robbie Whitcomb is five years old when he&rsquo;s taken from his mother in a mall parking lot. In her attempt to chase the kidnapper, she&rsquo;s left badly injured and permanently disfigured. Such are the methods of the man who calls himself Daddy Love&mdash;a man known to the rest of the world as charismatic preacher Chester Cash. For the next six years, Robbie is to be Daddy&rsquo;s son. That means doing whatever Daddy says&mdash;and giving him whatever he wants. Soon Robbie learns to accept his new name, Gideon. He also learns that he is not the first of Daddy Love&rsquo;s sons. And that each of the others, after reaching a certain age, was never seen again. As Robbie&rsquo;s mother recovers from her wounds, her life and marriage are a daily struggle. But as years go by, she maintains a flicker of hope that her son is still alive. Meanwhile, Robbie approaches the &ldquo;bittersweet age&rdquo; with no illusions about his fate. But somewhere within this tortured child lies a spark of rebellion. And he knows all too well what survival requires. &ldquo;After all these years, Joyce Carol Oates can still give me the creeps.&rdquo; &mdash;Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;A lean and disturbing tale that reverberates after its ending.&rdquo; &mdash;The Columbus Dispatch &ldquo;Oates makes us squirm as she forces us to see some of the action through Love&rsquo;s twisted and warped perspective.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;This unsettling tale showcases Oates&rsquo;s masterful storytelling.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Daddy Love

<div>Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her &ldquo;mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals&mdash;brother and sister. teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway&mdash;in the beautiful, bracing prose that has become her signature. In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city&rsquo;s 1967 race riots. In &ldquo;The Rescuer,&rdquo; a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral, only to find herself entranced by his dangerous new world. Meanwhile, a young woman prowls the New York City subways in search of her perfect man in &ldquo;Lorelei.&rdquo; In each of these short stories, Oates portrays a desperate confrontation with the demons inside us. Sometimes it&rsquo;s the human who wins, and sometimes it&rsquo;s the demon. &ldquo;Oates offers unexpected glimmers of redemption amid the grotesquerie, degradation, and exploitation that fill this collection&rsquo;s eight tales.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

High Crime Area

<div>This Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning collection is &ldquo;certain to stick in your mind long after you&rsquo;ve turned the last page&rdquo; (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes &ldquo;Big Momma,&rdquo; a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story Here are six of Joyce Carol Oates&rsquo;s most &ldquo;frightening&mdash;and deeply disturbing&mdash;short stories&rdquo; (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin&rsquo;s doll after her tragic death. As he grows older, he begins to collect &ldquo;found dolls&rdquo; from surrounding neighborhoods . . . each with its own sinister significance. In &ldquo;Gun Accident,&rdquo; a teenage girl is delighted to house-sit for her favorite teacher, until an intruder forces his way inside&mdash;changing more than one life forever. The collection closes with the taut tale of a mystery bookstore owner whose designs on a rare bookshop in scenic New Hampshire devolve into a menacing game with real-life consequences. &ldquo;At the heart of each story is a predator-prey relationship, and what makes them so terrifying is that most of us can easily picture ourselves as the prey, at least at some time during our lives&rdquo; (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). &ldquo;Everything she writes, in whatever genre, has an air of dread, because she deals in vulnerabilities and inevitabilities, in the desperate needs that drive people . . . to their fates. A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around.&rdquo; &mdash;Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;One of the stranger parts of the human condition may be our deep fascination, and at times troubling exploration, of the darker aspects of our nature . . . No other author explores the ugly, and at times, blazingly unapologetic underbelly of these impulses quite like Joyce Carol Oates in The Doll-Master.&rdquo; &mdash;Pittsburgh Post-Gazette &ldquo;In her new collection . . . [Oates] relishes moments of gothic melodrama, while rooting them firmly in grindingly ordinary American lives.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Oates convincingly demonstrates her mastery of the macabre with this superlative story collection . . . This devil&rsquo;s half-dozen of dread and suspense is a must read.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review</div>

The Doll-Master

<div>Seven &ldquo;masterfully told&rdquo; stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her singular reputation for portraying the dark complexities of the human psyche. The title novella tells the story of Marissa, an eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. When she suddenly disappears, mounting evidence points to a local substitute teacher. Meanwhile, an older girl from Melissa&rsquo;s school is giddy with her power to cause so much havoc unnoticed. And she intends to use that power to enact a terrifying ritual called The Corn Maiden. In &ldquo;Helping Hands,&rdquo; published here for the first time, a widow meets an Iraq War veteran in a dingy charity shop, having no idea where the peculiar encounter is about to lead. In &ldquo;Fossil-Figures,&rdquo; a pair of twins&mdash;an artist and a congressman&mdash;never outgrow an ugly sibling rivalry. And in &ldquo;A Hole in the Head,&rdquo; a plastic surgeon gives in to an unusual and dangerous request. Together, these seven tales offer &ldquo;a virtuoso performance&rdquo; of &ldquo;probing, unsettling, intelligent&rdquo; storytelling from one of the world&rsquo;s greatest writers of suspense (The Guardian). &ldquo;The seven stories in this stellar collection from the prolific Oates may prompt the reader to turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises. . . . This volume burnishes [her] reputation as a master of psychological dread.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;For horror stories to be truly horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing, and delivers with style.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;Further confirmation of a unique writer&rsquo;s restless, preternatural brilliance.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian</div>

The Corn Maiden

<div>&ldquo;A quartet of shrewd and unnerving novellas about toxic entanglements&rdquo; from the National Book Award&ndash;winning author (Booklist). Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless when exploring the most disturbing corners of human nature. In Evil Eye, Oates offers four chilling tales about love so powerful that people might die&mdash;or kill&mdash;for it. In the title story, we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband&rsquo;s first wife comes to visit, Mariana learns a terrible secret that threatens her marriage and sanity. In &ldquo;So Near Any Times Always,&rdquo; shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming older boy who offers the first spark of romance. Yet as their relationship blossoms, Lizbeth realizes that a menacing soul lies beneath Desmond&rsquo;s perfect fa&ccedil;ade. In &ldquo;The Execution,&rdquo; spoiled college student Bart Hansen has planned the perfect crime to get back at his condescending parents. What he didn&rsquo;t plan on was the resilience of his mother&rsquo;s love, even in the face of death. And in &ldquo;The Flatbed,&rdquo; childhood trauma has prevented Cecelia from enjoying physical intimacy with a man. But when she meets the love of her life, Cecelia must confront the demon who stole her innocence long ago. With the razor-sharp prose that has made Joyce Carol Oates a living legend, Evil Eye shows love as sporadically magical, mysterious, and murderous. &ldquo;A dazzling, disturbing, tour de force of Gothic suspense: four odd, compelling, ingeniously narrated tales that gain in power and resonance when read in conjunction with each other.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe &ldquo;Exquisitely suspenseful. . . . The relationships between the damaged, sometimes monstrous individuals who people these pages will keep the reader riveted.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review</div>

Evil Eye

<div>An exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies. Only Stephen King, one of the few mystery writers whose fame exceeds his own, is capable of inspiring a twinge of envy in Rush. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym &ldquo;Jack of Spades,&rdquo; he pens another string of novels&mdash;noir thrillers that are violent, lurid, and masochistic. These are novels that the upstanding Rush wouldn&rsquo;t be caught reading, let alone writing. When his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel he has carelessly left out, she picks it up and begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Before long, Rush&rsquo;s reputation, career, and family life all come under threat&mdash;and in his mind he begins to hear the taunting voice of the Jack of Spades. &ldquo;Sleek and suspenseful . . . Readers are sure to be gripped and unsettled by [Oates&rsquo;s] depiction of a seemingly mild-mannered character whose psychopathology simmers frighteningly close to the surface.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Just when you think you&rsquo;ve got her all figured out, Joyce Carol Oates sneaks up behind and confounds you yet again. She does it with a wicked flourish in Jack of Spades.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Jack of Spades

<div>In this disturbing short story collection, Joyce Carol Oates explores the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women. Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to &ldquo;illuminate the mind&rsquo;s most disturbing corners&rdquo; (The Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in this collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive black sheep of the family. Without telling her parents Jill climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, and unforgettable, fate. In &ldquo;The Drowned Girl,&rdquo; a university transfer student becomes increasingly obsessed with the drowning/murder of another female student, as her own sense of self begins to deteriorate. In &ldquo;Great Blue Heron,&rdquo; a recent widow grieves inside the confines of her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into that great flying predator unerring and pitiless in the hunt. And in the final story, &ldquo;Welcome to Friendly Skies,&rdquo; a trusting group of bird-watchers is borne to a remote part of the globe, to a harrowing fate. At the heart of this meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting collection are girls and women confronting the danger around them, and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves.</div>

Dis Mem Ber

<div>Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning &ldquo;grand mistress of ghoulishness&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly).An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she&rsquo;s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor&rsquo;s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for &ldquo;great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times Book Review).</div>

Cardiff, by the Sea

<div>Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: &ldquo;Oates&rsquo; spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.&rdquo;&#8213;Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself&mdash;as demonstrated in these six stories. One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper&rsquo;s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In &ldquo;The Long-Legged Girl,&rdquo; an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband&rsquo;s latest conquest? In &ldquo;The Sign of the Beast,&rdquo; when a former Sunday school teacher&rsquo;s corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder&mdash;but is he really responsible? And another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in &ldquo;Night-Gaunts,&rdquo; a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. &ldquo;Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.&rdquo;&#8213;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Night-Gaunts

<div>From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, &ldquo;a compelling domestic horror story&rdquo; of a new bride haunted by childhood nightmares (Kirkus Reviews). Less than twenty-four hours after exchanging vows with her new husband, Willem, Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine whether this was an absentminded accident or a premeditated plunge, and he quickly discovers a mysterious set of clues about what his wife might be hiding. Why, for example is there a rash-like red mark circling her wrist? What does she dream about that causes her to wake from the sound of her own screams? Slowly, Abby begins to open up to her husband, revealing to him what she has never shared with anyone before&mdash;a story of a terrified mother; a jealous, drug-addled father; a daughter&rsquo;s terrifying captivity; and the demons behind her terrible recurring dreams of wandering through a field ridden with human skulls and bones&hellip; From a recipient of a National Book Award and three Bram Stoker Awards, this suspenseful, twisting tale, named one of the scariest books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, is a &ldquo;fast-paced examination of the destructive and restorative nature of obsessive love&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

Pursuit

<div>Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery. In &ldquo;One Dollar Jackpot,&rdquo; Michael Connelly&rsquo;s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up &ldquo;Bump,&rdquo; a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. &ldquo;Hardly Knew Her&rdquo; by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, while &ldquo;In the Eyes of Children&rdquo; by Alexander McCall Smith features a scam at a poker table on the high seas. With these, and more offerings from mystery greats such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Lescroart, Walter Mosley, Peter Robinson, and Eric Van Lustbader, Dead Man&rsquo;s Hand is a suspenseful anthology that&rsquo;s a big winner for any fan of crime fiction.</div>

Dead Man's Hand

<div>&ldquo;Essential reading for any serious beginning writer . . . illuminating.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle Carson McCullers is renowned for her Southern Gothic fiction and for such modern classics as The Member of the Wedding. This collection includes an assortment of her earliest work, written mostly before she was nineteen. Included are stories, essays, articles, poems, and writing about writing&mdash;including the working outline of &ldquo;The Mute,&rdquo; which would become her bestselling novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter&mdash;as well as an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. As new generations continue to discover the work of Carson McCullers, this volume provides both an enjoyable read and an inspiring look at the beginning of a brilliant literary career.</div>

The Mortgaged Heart

<div>A book lover&rsquo;s lust for acquisition drives him to murder in this short tale from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Beautiful Days. Identified only by the hastily&mdash;and clumsily&mdash;chosen alias Charles Brockden, the narrator of this story finds a bookstore that instantly piques his desire. He must call it his own; he must add it to his already-extensive collection of bookstores. But surely the owner of such a fine shop wouldn&rsquo;t easily part with it. Brockden forms a plan to acquire the store in such a way that no one would ever suspect foul play: untraceable murder. And he knows he will be successful&mdash;because he has done it before. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

Mystery, Inc.

<div>Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Multiple award-winning, bestselling authors provide the literary thrills and chills in this masterful collection of five ingeniously puzzling mysteries that belong in the library of every crime fiction aficionado. Dead Dames Don&rsquo;t Sing by John Harvey: Looking for a big payday but finding big trouble instead, ex-London-cop-turned-private-investigator Jack Kiley attempts to uncover the true origins of a controversial, pseudonymously written pulp novel. The Travelling Companion by Ian Rankin: A young Scotsman in Paris is drawn into a shocking mystery that resides within the pages of an unpublished manuscript allegedly penned by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mystery, Inc. by Joyce Carol Oates: When an obsessive collector of bookstores discovers a charming new shop, he decides he must have it at any cost&mdash;even if he has to commit murder. Remaindered by Peter Lovesey: For some nefarious reason, the widow and former associates of a slain gangster are determined to keep the Precious Finds Bookstore open following the unfortunate demise of the shop&rsquo;s owner. The Book Thing by Laura Lippman: Private investigator Tess Monaghan must help the irascible proprietor of a Baltimore children&rsquo;s bookstore keep her business afloat by unmasking an elusive and utterly ingenious book thief.</div>

Bookshop Mysteries

<div>A dangerously seductive collection of tales that&mdash;like the sirens themselves&mdash;are impossible to resist Sensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting young man who innocently joins in seductive faerie revelry, and a cat goddess made human. Alluring and charismatic, this collection from master editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling will stimulate more than just your imagination. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, including rare photos from the editors&rsquo; personal collections.</div>

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

<div>The companion volume to the provocative Alien Sex anthology, Off Limits pushes boundaries with twenty stimulating tales of otherworldly encounters This second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, and many others to explore the mysteries of sex, alien and human alike. From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he&rsquo;s monitoring, to a woman whose souvenir dream-catcher calls to her bedroom more than she bargained for, to a genetically engineered sex object aboard a space station, these thought-provoking tales of alien sex open up new worlds for fantastical exploration. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Off Limits

<div>20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories&mdash;and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children. A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots . . . Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears . . . An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty . . . A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel . . . A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages&mdash;tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.</div>

Apple Books

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

<div>Dark and decidedly grown-up stories inspired by fairy tales&mdash;from New York Times bestsellers Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, Susanna Clarke, and more. This collection from World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don&rsquo;t have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest literary talents. Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White&rsquo;s desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion. The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb&rsquo;s brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his &ldquo;Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs.&rdquo; All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold. Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen. </div>

Black Swan, White Raven

<div>Fairy tales reimagined&mdash;in stories by &ldquo;a distinguished company of writers&rdquo; including Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tanith Lee (Kirkus Reviews). For many of us, the fairy tale was our first exposure to the written word and the power of storytelling. These wondrous works of magic and morality enthralled us, enchanted us, sometimes terrified us, and remain in our hearts and memories still. Once again, World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have compiled an extraordinary collection of reimagined tales conceived by some of today&rsquo;s most acclaimed contemporary purveyors of literary fantasy, science fiction, and horror, including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, and others. Remarkable things lurk in these dark and magical woods. Here Beauty confronts a serial-killer Beast, Hansel and Gretel&rsquo;s witch resides not in a gingerbread house but in a luxurious resort, and Rumpelstiltskin is truly the devil demanding his due, rightfully or otherwise. The hilarious &ldquo;Roach in Loafers&rdquo; ingeniously combines the classic &ldquo;Elves and the Shoemaker&rdquo; tale with &ldquo;Puss in Boots&rdquo; and adds an insectile twist, while in a modern fable that blends The Wizard of Oz and Hans Christian Andersen, Dorothy is set adrift in Hollywoodland, ruby slippers and all. These are not the fairy stories you remember from childhood.</div>

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

<div>Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more. From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes a deadly contract. A comedy duo realizes that retribution is no laughing matter. And a single woman must face the shocking reasons for her solitary lifestyle. Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow commissioned these and fourteen other tales from some of the most talented authors of our time to make up Lethal Kisses. Available for the first time in the United States, this is a collection of eighteen horrifying tales on evening the score. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Lethal Kisses

<div>A New Jersey family takes an ex-con into their suburban home in this &ldquo;chilling, nightmarish&rdquo; novel by a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Attorney Michael O&rsquo;Meara&rsquo;s dogged belief that Lee Roy Sears was innocent of murder has paid off. The lawyer has not only gotten the convicted inmate released from death row at Connecticut State Prison, but also procured an artist&rsquo;s residency in Mount Orion, New Jersey, for the rehabilitated Vietnam vet upon his parole. Sears is adapting nicely. He&rsquo;s selling his sculptures. He&rsquo;s eating well. He has ingratiated himself into Michael&rsquo;s home; is eternally grateful for Michael&rsquo;s benevolent motives, however mysterious their origin; and is thriving on the town&rsquo;s liberal patronage and attention&mdash;especially that of Michael&rsquo;s adulterous wife, Gina. But as Michael&rsquo;s picture-perfect family begins to show signs of cracking, his suspicions about Sears become violent obsessions. Now, the dreams and secrets of two men are about to collide in a nightmare. And before long, the lines between guilt and innocence, lies and truth, trust and betrayal are bound to go up in flames. Snake Eyes is in an astute and suspenseful story by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of them, We Were the Mulvaneys, The Gravedigger&rsquo;s Daughter, and many other acclaimed novels. </div>

Snake Eyes

<div>This &ldquo;mesmerizing&rdquo; novel about a crime at an elite music school &ldquo;calls to mind a David Lynch film&rdquo; (The New York Times). Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school&rsquo;s refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the newly appointed and celebrated composer-in-residence who has dazzled the faculty in ways Maggie could never have dreamed of. But when the conservatory&rsquo;s conspiracy to conceal the crime results in Christensen&rsquo;s murder, Bauer is suspected&mdash;and Maggie vows to find the real killer. What Maggie soon discovers is that Christensen&rsquo;s reputation&mdash;as genius, manipulator, and sexual predator&mdash;had preceded him, giving many people a reason to want him dead. But when the murder of another colleague casts additional doubt on Bauer&rsquo;s innocence, Maggie&rsquo;s labyrinthine hunt for a killer turns into more than an investigation. Now it&rsquo;s a liberating obsession with secrets&mdash;hers included&mdash;as dark and twisted as the crimes themselves. One of today&rsquo;s most prolific and acclaimed literary talents, Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award winner, a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. As Elmore Leonard said, with her psychological suspense novels written under the name Rosamond Smith, &ldquo;[she] could become the world&rsquo;s Number One mystery writer easily.&rdquo; </div>

Nemesis

<div>A female serial killer reconnects with her twin sister in this novel by an acclaimed National Book Award winner and &ldquo;first-rate thriller writer&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife and mother who teaches pottery classes in upstate New York. Then, out of the blue, her estranged sister, Sharon, shows up after fifteen years, seeking refuge from her life as a Las Vegas stripper. At first Lily is overwhelmed and overjoyed. Her daughter and husband welcome Sharon with open arms, eager to help the seemingly troubled young woman get a fresh start. But that&rsquo;s not really what Sharon wants. Under the alias Starr Bright, Aunt Sharon is the most wanted female serial killer in the country. Driven by a need for love and security, she has sought out sex and degradation&mdash;leaving behind a bloody trail of carved-up men in cheap motel rooms from coast to coast. Now, she&rsquo;s insinuating herself into the lives of those who trust and love her. She&rsquo;s come home to family, and not just to hide. For her entire life, Sharon has been nursing a poisonous vengeance that has yet to claim its last victim. And very, very soon, Starr Bright will strike again. This smart, chilling novel from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Black Water is &ldquo;a real page-turner&rdquo; (Library Journal). &ldquo;Recall that &lsquo;Rosamond Smith&rsquo; is the nom de plume of Joyce Carol Oates when writing her psychological suspense novels a la Ruth Rendell. Oates-as-Smith has had great practice in limning the type of personality that results from sexual guilt and craving love, and she explores it anew&rdquo; in Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon (Booklist).</div>

Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon

<div>A lonely widow is romanced by a &ldquo;brilliantly portrayed&rdquo; pathological killer in this novel by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of them (The New York Times). Dorothea Deverell is a New England art historian working for a Boston museum, resigned to entering middle age alone&mdash;until she&rsquo;s swept off her feet by the flattery of a charming younger man who calls her his soul mate. Colin Asch is swept away too. He admires Dorothea&rsquo;s gentle nature, innate goodness, decency, and acceptance of others without judgment. She&rsquo;s nothing at all like the people Colin has met before&mdash;and murdered. A self-appointed &ldquo;Angel of Death,&rdquo; Colin is determined to keep Dorothea happy&mdash;by eliminating anyone who gets in the way of his plan. They&rsquo;ll be clever kills, untraceable and fast as a knife-slash to the throat. Each one will bring him closer to the woman he loves. And by the time Dorothea discovers what horrors passion has wrought, she&rsquo;ll be in so deep, so dark, that giving in might be her only chance of survival. This novel, called &ldquo;a hair-raiser&rdquo; by Elmore Leonard, comes from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of We Were the Mulvaneys, a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the O. Henry Award, the National Book Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. In Soul/Mate, &ldquo;it is clear from the start that we are in Joyce Carol Oates territory, for the book is stamped with her hallmarks&mdash;her complex, detailed prose; her fascination with violence; her obsessive concern with rendering not so much action as the way action haunts the hidden consciousness of her characters&rdquo; (The New York Times).</div>

Soul/Mate

<div>An upstanding juror becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive plaintiff in this &ldquo;fast-paced, haunting&rdquo; novel by a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Boston Sunday Herald). Terence Greene is admired for his perfect life in an affluent New Jersey suburb, and for his marriage to a minister&rsquo;s beautiful and wealthy daughter. He&rsquo;s also envied for his successful career as director of an arts foundation. But all of that changes when Terence is summoned to jury duty in Trenton. Ava-Rose Renfrew, the alleged victim in an assault case, is a sexy, irresistibly raw, and low-rent woman who lives on the shadowy banks of the Delaware River with a strange clan she calls family. And she&rsquo;s very eager to show Terence her appreciation for his loyalty in the jury box. Before long, their quick and dirty affair becomes an obsession, and getting hooked on a drug as potent and violent as Ava-Rose soon turns Terence&rsquo;s respectable life to dust. He&rsquo;s willing to do anything for her: lie, embezzle, steal&mdash;and worse. For Terence, losing control is half the fun. But trying to get it back is terrifying. The recipient of honors ranging from the National Book Award to the Bram Stoker Award, Joyce Carol Oates has explored obsession and sexual terrors in such acclaimed novels as Zombie, Daddy Love, and Jack of Spades. In Double Delight, writing as Rosamond Smith, she proves herself an abandoned and fearless talent in psychological suspense. </div>

Double Delight

<div>A &ldquo;sinister, edgy, delectably creepy&rdquo; story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and antiquarian book collector who has traveled to Philadelphia to keep an appointment with a fellow dealer. But when he arrives, his life takes an unexpected and dizzying turn. A train porter returns his lost wallet, but the identification inside belongs to a man named Angus Markham, a gambler and real estate prospector. When Tristram returns to his hotel, he&rsquo;s greeted by staff as Markham, and in his room, he finds Markham&rsquo;s suitcase and clothes&mdash;as well as Fleur Grunwald, a woman who certainly knows her lover, Markham, when she sees him. And she seems to desperately need his help. At first baffled, then intrigued, Tristram decides to play along&mdash;only to discover that he&rsquo;s not in control of the game. Especially when he takes on Fleur and her sadistic husband and finds himself lost in a conspiracy of madness and murder. If only Tristram could be certain whether he&rsquo;s to be the killer&mdash;or the victim. From a winner of countless awards, the author of such bestsellers as We Were the Mulvaneys and Black Water, You Can&rsquo;t Catch Me is &ldquo;a tense psychological suspense novel filled with dual identities, double crosses, and duplicity. It is also filled with philosophical and literary allusions suggesting that this is less about the mystery of Markham than about the fragile mystery of identity. It&rsquo;s just what one would expect from the celebrated Joyce Carol Oates, who uses the pseudonym &lsquo;Rosamond Smith&rsquo; for her psychological thrillers&rdquo; (Library Journal).</div>

You Can't Catch Me

<div>&ldquo;Readers who know Lovecraft&rsquo;s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories&mdash;both new and rediscovered&mdash;that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today&rsquo;s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft&rsquo;s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow. In &ldquo;Commencement&rdquo; by Joyce Carol Oates, a university begins its annual ceremony of renewal with three renowned scholars whose lifetime achievements are fodder for the student body. A couple desperate to have another child turn to the darkest rituals of folklore and mythology in &ldquo;Catch Hell&rdquo; by Laird Barron. And Holly Phillips&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cold Water Survival&rdquo; trails a group of Antarctic explorers who encounter vast, unexplainable shapes in the ice&mdash;a danger to humanity awakening from its frozen slumber. Rounding out the collection are more spinetingling tales from Brian Evenson, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Bowes, Anna Tambour, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane, William Browning Spencer, Michael Cisco, Lavie Tidhar, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Shea, Gemma Files, and Nick Mamatas.</div>

Lovecraft Unbound

<div>This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear. To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would &ldquo;provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights very bright and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.&rdquo; Mission accomplished. The resulting collection draws together some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories&rsquo; characters toil within their own hell. Winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology.</div>

Inferno

<div>This award-winning horror anthology is the &ldquo;yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured&rdquo;&mdash;featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow&mdash;praised by William Gibson as &ldquo;the genre&rsquo;s sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions&rdquo;&mdash;is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied and talented authors and invited them to scare the heck out of her. The resulting anthology redefines the ghost story, venturing beyond the accustomed tropes and into horror&rsquo;s true realm: the unknown. The Dark takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two. Under the covers of The Dark, you will find a gathering of sixteen unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology of the Year</div>

The Dark

<div>A World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others. The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term &ldquo;la petite mort,&rdquo; a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man&rsquo;s life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories that explore the connection between sex and death. These stories range from the erotic to the psychological, all against a backdrop of horror. Authors include Lucy Taylor, Nicola Griffith, Kathe Koja, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucius Shepard, and many more.</div>

Little Deaths

<div>Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly</div>

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