Mistresses of the dark : 25 macabre tales by master storytellers / selected by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Denise Little, and Robert Weinberg.
"In the twenty-five uncommon stories collected here, intense emotions erupt into extremes of expression, and ordinary men and women are smothered by the embrace of the macabre."
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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New York :
Barnes & Noble,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The dreadful day of judgement / Ruth Rendell
- A spiritualist / Jean Rhys
- The dummy / Susan Sontag
- The girl I left behind me / Muriel Spark
- Spirit of the house / Fay Weldon
- Clytie / Eudora Welty.