The Corn Maiden

And Other Nightmares

By: Joyce Carol Oates

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Paperback | 4 June 2013

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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.

Industry Reviews

'Even within the wild and tangled menagerie that comprises our literary landscape, Joyce Carol Oates is a startling creature, possessed of a speed and talent that hints at the uncanny ... The Corn Maiden provides further confirmation of a unique writer's restless, preternatural brilliance' 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.

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