Oates, Joyce Carol
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938– ),prolific American writer, whose work includes plays, novels, stories, poetry, and literary criticism. Her first collection of short stories, By the North Gate, appeared in 1963, and since then she has published many other collections such as The Land of Abyssalia (1980) and Raven's Wing (1986), in which she has woven fairy‐tale motifs into her narratives. Other works such as Bellefleur (1980) and A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)reflect her interest in supernatural and Gothic fiction. Her collections, Night‐Side: Eighteen Tales (1977), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), and Demon and Other Tales (1996), include dark fantasy and weird fiction. In 1988 she published two fairy tales, ‘Blue‐Bearded Lover’ and ‘Secret Observations on the Goat Girl’ in The Assignation, and ‘The Crossing’ (1995) and ‘In the Insomniac Night’ (1997)...
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