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Flint Kill Creek : stories of mystery and suspense

Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1613165579
ISBN: 9781613165577
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Mysterious Press edition.
Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Flint Kill Creek -- The phlebotomist -- The heiress. The hireling -- Weekday -- *** -- Friend of my heart -- Bone marrow donor -- Happy Christmas -- The nice girl -- Mick & Minn -- Late love -- The siren: 1999.

Summary, etc.:

"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"--