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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

Joyce Carol Oates

2011·365 pages

Horror Literary Fiction

A volume of six stories and novellas by the author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.

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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

Joyce Carol Oates

Year

2011

Pages

365

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A volume of six stories and novellas by the author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.

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