Mudwoman

"For a young novelist, this kind of risk-taking would be admirable; for a 73-year-old with more than 50 novels to her name, it is extraordinary."

—Michael Prodger, Financial Times

"her most overtly political novel ... It is both huge and small at the same time, close and expansive, personal and epic."

—Scotland on Sunday

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

• 2011 Bram Stoker Award winner: Superior Achievment in a Fiction Collection
• 2011 Shirley Jackson Award finalist
• Also includes the World Fantasy Award winner "Fossil-Figures"

"In each astute, creepy, nearly paralyzing tale of longing, malevolence, and calamity, Oates extends her tireless exploration deep into the darkness of damaged and criminal psyches, a realm of terrible power." —Donna Seaman, Booklist

"This volume burnishes Oates's reputation as a master of psychological dread." —Publishers Weekly

New Jersey Noir

Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book.

—Publishers Weekly