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New novella THE CORN MAIDEN, an unbearably taut tale combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, plus six other, nightmarish, stories. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combining the fury of folklore and adolescent insecurity. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school, lingering on her walk through the swaying heads of maize. She is the perfect sacrifice. The Corn Maiden is a novella, followed by six other nightmares.

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'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian. 'For horror stories to be truly horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing and delivers with style' Independent on Sunday. 'Oates has a talent for creating suspense and surprise, while apparently withholding nothing' The Times. 'Oates unerringly manages to unsettle the reader, preying deftly and mercilessly on our deepest anxieties' Metro.

'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian.

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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

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