The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Mysterious Press
Publication date	November 1, 2011
Media type	Print (hardback & e-book) and audiobook
Pages	264 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0802126022 (first edition, hardback)

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is a collection of short stories and novellas by Joyce Carol Oates. Published in 2011 by Mysterious Press, it contains several works that Oates had worked on over a period of fifteen years.^[1]

Synopsis[]

The book contains the stories "The Corn Maiden", "Beersheba", "Nobody Knows My Name", "Fossil-Figures", "Death-Cup", "Helping Hands", and "A Hole in the Head". The story contents range from a group of children planning to sacrifice one of their classmates in "The Corn Maiden" to a widow interacting with an employee of a second-hand store in "Helping Hands".

Reception[]

Critical reception for The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares has been positive, with Kirkus Reviews calling the book "nightmarish".^[2] Publishers Weekly praised the book, calling Oates "a master of psychological dread" but wrote that the audio book's narrator Christine Williams "lacks the emotional punch and range displayed" by the book's other narrator.^[3][4] The Star Tribune and Bookreporter all praised the book, with Bookreporter praising the book's palpable anxiety.^[5][6]

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