A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy fashionist discovers a secret door inside her favourite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insights, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or ageing mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males.
- ISBN10 1905204108
- ISBN13 9781905204106
- Publish Date 18 May 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 May 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quercus Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292
- Language English