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Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers
Mistresses of the Dark 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers Author:Stefa Dziemianowicz (Compiler), Denise Little (Compiler), Robert Weinberg (Compiler) Mistresses of the Dark introduces you to disturbing tales by A.S. Byatt, Louise Erdrich, Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, and other leading female writers who dare, in the words of Edna O'Brien, "to pursue in daylight what we should leave for nighttime." In the 25 uncommon stories collected here, intense emotions erupt in... more »to extremes of expression, and ordinary men and women are smothered by the embrace of the macabre.
Stories include:
Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood
The July ghost / A.S. Byatt
The bloody chamber / Angela Carter
Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier
Fleur / Louise Erdrich
Up north / Mavis Gallant
Letter from his father / Nadine Gordimer
The pond / Patricia Highsmith
The butler catcher / A.M. Homes
The summer people / Shirley Jackson
Ovando / Jamaica Kincaid
Poor little Saturday / Madeleine L'Engle
The ones who walk away from omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Plants and girls / Doris Lessing
Another Halloween / Alison Lurie
The parallel world / Valerie Martin
Number 10 / Edna O'Brien
The river / Flannery O'Connor
The virgin in the rose-bower, or the tragedy of Glen Mawr Manor / Joyce Carol Oates