Joyce Carol Oates

An "enthralling" (Los Angeles Times) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by the legendary author "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New York Times Magazine) "Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today."--Gillian Flynn"I found it mesmerizing front to back."--Michael Connelly"I can't remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive."--Rebecca Makkai"An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I've read."--Joseph Finder"Fox is poised to be the big escape a lot of us are looking for right about now."--The Boston Globe A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Vulture, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, AV Club, AARPWho is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates's Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can't outfox. Written in Oates's trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson. Featuring: Joyce Carol Oates Josh Malerman Carmen Maria Machado Paul Tremblay Richard Kadrey Stephen Graham Jones Elizabeth Hand Kelly Link Cassandra Khaw Karen Heuler Benjamin Percy John Langan Laird Barron Jeffrey Ford M. Rickert Seanan McGuire Gemma Files Genevieve Valentine.

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson. Featuring: Joyce Carol Oates Josh Malerman Carmen Maria Machado Paul Tremblay Richard Kadrey Stephen Graham Jones Elizabeth Hand Kelly Link Cassandra Khaw Karen Heuler Benjamin Percy John Langan Laird Barron Jeffrey Ford M. Rickert Seanan McGuire Gemma Files Genevieve Valentine.

When her journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O. Henry awards, and others, under her literary belt. For all her warm critical reception, however, the author had been (and would remain) fairly reticent about the personal details of her life and background. Housed in her archive at Syracuse University, the journals run to more than 5,000 single-spaced typewritten pages. This volume focuses on excerpts from that first decade, 1973-1983, one of the most productive of Oates' long career.

Obsession and depravity shatter suburban life and academia in this compelling double dose of psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Donna Tartt. CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF PSEUDONYMOUS SUSPENSE FROM JOYCE CAROL OATES Four decades ago, acclaimed literary author Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name "Rosamond Smith." In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles, and hidden second identities—initially, keeping her own double identity a secret. Hard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction, long unavailable in bookstores, back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections. In This Volume... A model suburban husband grows obsessed with a beautiful stranger in DOUBLE DELIGHT, while an eminent professor preys on a vulnerable student in NEMESIS – and the echoes continue in the rare short stories “A Girl Worth Twenty Million” and “First Death.”

A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New York Times Magazine) "A genius in the truest sense of the word."--Rebecca Makkai "One of the greatest writers among us today."--Gillian Flynn Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone. A young woman on a supposedly romantic weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, turns the tables on her older, married lover. A freak bicycle accident on a bridge haunts one family for decades. A girl jealous of her popular cousin discovers she is the lucky one. A widow waits at her riverside house for her dead husband's return. A young man hiking in the woods comes upon a couple in a heated, possibly violent argument--should he intervene? Suspenseful and psychologically astute, Oates's short stories enthrall and captivate as they dissect her character's deepest fears--revealing our own in turn. "Literature is a texture of words," says Oates of her short fiction, "evoking life in the most vivid ways--psychologically, physically." These new stories blazingly evoke life at its most vivid and perilous, when fate and free will intersect, and one ominous encounter or bad choice can be the difference between an ordinary day and the point of no return.

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

Vem hade du varit, och vilket liv hade du levt, om du valt en annan väg? En etablerad författare återvänder till sitt familjehem i Yewville, men hemkomsten väcker problematiska tankar om den person hon hade kunnat bli om hon aldrig hade flyttat. En fängslad man begrundar allvaret i en oåterkallelig handling. En student reflekterar över sin affär med en professor vilken resulterat i en graviditet som drastiskt förändrat hennes liv för all framtid. Även handlingen att läsa som sådan utreds som en djupgående transformation: “Du kan stiga in i en annan tid, bokens tid.” Ditt (andra) jag är en samling berättelser som ger en gripande och skarp inblick i alternativa verkligheter. I varierande perspektiv begrundas begränsningarna vi möts av, såsom de förhållanden vi föds in i, våra personliga läggningar samt konkurrensens, tryck och förväntningar från samhället på i synnerhet kvinnor. Oates demonstrerar här, insiktsfullt medveten om nyanserna i våra sociala och psykiska jag, varför hon fortsätter att vara en av vår samtids mest relevanta, lästa och hyllade författare. "Hon överraskar hela tiden ... jag vill kliva in i Joyce Carol Oates huvud för hennes fantasi är fantastisk och det får vi uppleva i den ena novellen efter den andra i den här boken. Hon är en författare som fortfarande utvecklas. Jag älskade den här!" Titti Schulz i Go'kväll Joyce Carol Oates, f. 1938 i staten New York, är en av USA:s verkligt betydande författare. Oates har sedan debuten 1963 publicerat ett stort antal romaner, novellsamlingar, skådespel, essäer, poesi och kritik. Framför allt inom prosan har Oates utmärkt sig som en av de största inom den samtida litteraturen. På HarperCollins Nordic har hon tidigare utkommit med Mitt liv som råtta (2019) som blev nominerad till Årets Bok, Vackra dagar (2020), Natten. Sömnen. Döden. Och stjärnorna (2022), Amerikansk melankoli (2022), Barnvakten (2023), även den nominerad till Årets Bok, Andas (2024) samt Snitt (2024). År 2024 mottog hon Bokmässans nyinstiftade litterära pris Sjöjungfrun.

A double dose of gripping psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Two serial killers – one female, one male – murder in the name of a higher cause. Ideal for fans of Alice Munro, Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.This omnibus includes:STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON: Exotic dancer who moonlights as a serial killer of men who mistreat her travels across the country to hole up with her straitlaced twin sister and elude the law.“The Murderess”: Teen girl’s ambivalent relationship to older female relative who killed her husband.SOUL/MATE: Handsome young male serial killer falls for older woman and starts killing to further her interests.“An Unsolved Crime”: Old man remembers killing stepfather who abused his sister when they were children

Tras la aclamada Carnicero, libro del a o seg n El Mundo, vuelve la candidata al Nobel, finalista del Pulitzer y «sin duda de las mejores escritoras vivas de Estados Unidos (The New York Times Magazine) con una novela de suspense inspirada en la dark academia. Francis Fox es un encantador profesor de ingl s reci n llegado a la id lica y exclusiva Academia Langhorne. Capaz de seducir con su carisma a casi todo el mundo, el profesor Fox tambi n despierta la intriga de muchos sobre sus enigm ticos or genes. Cuando dos hermanos descubren el coche de Fox medio sumergido en un estanque y partes de un cuerpo sin identificar esparcidas por los bosques cercanos, toda la comunidad empieza a hacerse preguntas inquietantes sobre su verdadera identidad. Una vertiginosa historia de crimen y complicidad, venganza y justicia, en la que Oates tambi n ilumina los rincones m s oscuros de la psique humana y plantea profundas cuestiones morales sobre las respuestas que exige el mal. Francis Fox, un personaje tan magn ticamente diab lico como el Tom Ripley de Highsmith y el Humbert Humbert de Nabokov, hechiza y manipula a casi todos los que le rodean, hasta que por fin conoce a alguien a quien no puede enga ar. Escrita con el caracter stico estilo intimista y arrollador de Oates, El se or Fox es un triunfo de artesan a literaria y arte, una novela tan profunda como propulsiva, tan conmovedora como llena de misterio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "enthralling" (Los Angeles Times) and "remarkably engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by legendary author Joyce Carol Oates "Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written."--Gillian Flynn "I found it mesmerizing front to back."--Michael Connelly AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Vulture, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, AV Club, AARP Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates's Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can't outfox. Written in Oates's trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

Francis Fox charmar och manipulerar alla runt omkring sig, tills han träffar någon som han inte kan överlista.Den nya charmiga engelskläraren Fox tjusar sina elever, deras föräldrar och sina kollegor på den idylliska internatskolan Langhorne Academy. Men sin egen bakgrund är han förtegen om. Vad är det han döljer? När Fox bil hittas till hälften nedsänkt i en damm och delar av en oidentifierad kropp upptäcks utspridda i en skog i närheten, börjar hela samhället, inklusive kriminalpolis Horace Zwender, ifrågasätta läraren. Oroande och obehagliga omständigheter tycks omsväva Francis Fox. Vem var han egentligen? Fox är en hypnotisk berättelse om brott och medbrottslighet, hämnd och upprättelse, offer och förövare. Joyce Carol Oates belyser här de mörkaste vrårna av det mänskliga psyket samtidigt som romanen väcker djupa moraliska frågor om rättvisa och ondska. Oates skriver med sin karaktäristiska intima, svepande stil och flätar ihop flera olika perspektiv. Romanen är ett mästerverk, lika djup som den är drivande, lika gripande som full av mystik.***Joyce Carol Oates, f. 1938, är en av USA:s verkligt betydande författare. Hon har sedan debuten 1963 publicerat ett stort antal romaner, flera novellsamlingar, skådespel, essäer, poesi och kritik. På HarperCollins Nordic utkom hon senast med romanen Snitt och novellsamlingen Ditt (andra) jag. År 2024 mottog hon Bokmässans nyinstiftade litterära pris Sjöjungfrun.

From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales.In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on unsettling journeys through the modern American psyche. Here you will find tales of loss and grief, confusion and darkness; of violent ends and the cruel march of time; of failed relationships, family secrets, and professional jealousy; of deceitful lovers, distant spouses, and those with murder in mind. Dark secrets or their own consciences impact Oates' characters as she moves between small American towns and anonymous urban sprawls, between the courtroom, the hospital, the world of academia, and the wilderness of upstate New York with deft skill in this tantalising collection of the macabre and mysterious, the suspenseful and the sublime.'[A] literary goddess.' Daily Mail

These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink. She finally decides that she will join him when he suggests they meet at his home. A man is so forgetful that his wife panics and yells into his phone, asking where their daughter has gone. A young man is curious to see why sirens have filled the night and the police arrest him, beginning an unimaginable nightmare. A woman resents that a colleague has achieved greater success and thinks she ought to do something about it. It is impossible to know where a story by the creative genius of Joyce Carol Oates will end and what frightening paths will lead to that end.