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A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth...

Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros—en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente—ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda. Tras una exhaustiva documentación, Joyce Carol Oates redibuja la vida interior de Norma Jeane Baker.

Los Mulvaney son un ejemplo de familia feliz. El padre es un hombre apuesto, trabajador y sensato; la madre, una mujer encantadora y dicharachera, y los hijos, Mike, Patrick, Marianne y Judd, el broche de oro a un matrimonio idílico. Viven en High Point Farm, una granja de ensueño que será su infierno a partir del día de San Valentín de 1976, cuando un oscuro suceso cambia por completo la vida de Marianne, y los Mulvaney inician su declive. El narrador de la historia es Judd, periodista y el menor de los hijos, quien revela la verdad de su familia y de un país entero.

Il vecchio John Earle “Whitey” McClaren, è l'ex sindaco repubblicano di Hammond, editore, pubblicitario e patriarca di una famiglia di cinque figli. Mentre cerca di fermare il pestaggio di un sospetto da parte della polizia viene a sua volta violentemente picchiato, colpito con il taser e, di conseguenza, entra in coma. Muore in ospedale poco dopo. La scomparsa del capofamiglia porta i suoi figli e la moglie, Jessalyn, a intraprendere un percorso di inattese e imprevedibili trasformazioni.

As detective Xavier Kilgarvan sorts through clues and rumors, facts and fantasy, he is united with his beloved Perdita in a perilous challenge - the case of The Bloodstained Bridal Gown. Twelve years after solving the mystery of The Devil’s Half Acre, Xavier has received an urgent plea for help. A young minister and a woman from his parish have been murdered. Their torn bodies are found in an oddly suggestive position: leaning tenderly upon each other on a sofa in the rectory. Yet something even stranger is discovered upstairs....

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, California, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her-but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride.

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.