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The collector of hearts : new tales of the grotesque / Joyce Carol Oates.
LIBRA Special PS3565.A8 C6 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, American.
- Genre:
- Horror fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 321 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Dutton, [1998]
- Summary:
- Following in the tradition of her highly acclaimed 1994 short fiction collection, "Haunted", Joyce Carol Oates offers a collection of 24 literary gothic tales.
- Contents:
- The sky blue ball
- Death mother
- The hand-puppet
- Schroeder's stepfather
- The sepulchre
- The hands
- Labor Day
- The collector of hearts
- Demon
- Elvis is dead: Why are you alive?
- Posthumous
- The omen
- The sons of Angus MacElster
- The affliction
- Scars
- An urban paradox
- Unprintable
- Intensive
- Valentine
- Death astride bicycle
- The dream-catcher
- Fever blisters
- The crossing
- Shadows of the evening
- The temple
- The journey.
- Notes:
- "A William Abrahams book."
- "First Printing, November 1998."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0525944451 :
- OCLC:
- 38856221
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