The Accursed (Oates novel)

First edition
Cover artist Giovanni Boldini,
"Profile of a Young Woman", date unknown

The Accursed is the fifth volume of United States writer Joyce Carol Oates's Gothic series. The novel was published by Ecco on March 5, 2013.^[1] It is set in and around Princeton, New Jersey in the early twentieth century, and explores a variety of supernatural themes, tracing their effect upon members of several families who reside in the area. The Accursed contains a number of historical figures used in a fictional context, among them President Woodrow Wilson, and writers Mark Twain, Jack London and Upton Sinclair and his first wife Meta.

The Accursed was well-reviewed by a number of major authors, with writer Stephen King describing it in The New York Times Book Review as "the world's first postmodern Gothic novel".^[2]

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• Joyce Carol Oates website

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