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The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King & others, 1987

Dark Forces
Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison & others, 1980

The best American essays of the century
Joyce Carol Oates, 2000

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken & others, 1992

Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates, 2000

Fifty Best American Short Stories
Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster & others, 1965

Darkness
Ellen Datlow, Clive Barker & others, 2010

Foxfire
Joyce Carol Oates, 1993

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg & others, 1981

American Gothic Tales
Joyce Carol Oates, 1996

Stories
Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio & others, 2010

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others, 1999

Other Worlds Than These
John Joseph Adams, Lev Grossman & others, 2012

Haunted
Joyce Carol Oates, 1994

Zombie
Joyce Carol Oates, 1995

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Joyce Carol Oates, 1974

The Mammoth Book of Angels & Demons
Paula Guran, Susy McKee Charnas & others, 2013

Rape
Joyce Carol Oates, 2003

You Must Remember This
Joyce Carol Oates, 1987

Beasts
Joyce Carol Oates, 2002

Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates, 1992

Black water
Joyce Carol Oates, 1992

Masters of Darkness III
Dennis Etchison, Jack Vance & others, 1991

We were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates, 1996

Dreams from the Witch House
Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan & others, 2016

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates, 2002

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others, 1989

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling & others, 1998

Them
Joyce Carol Oates, 1969

Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates, 1980

Small Avalanches and Other Stories
Joyce Carol Oates, 2003

999
Al Sarrantonio, Stephen King & others, 1999

The Falls
Joyce Carol Oates, 2004

A Garden of Earthly Delights
Joyce Carol Oates, 1967

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Joyce Carol Oates, 2011

High lonesome
Joyce Carol Oates, 2006

Marya
Joyce Carol Oates, 1986

On Writing Short Stories
Francine Prose, Bailey & others, 2000

The Best American Essays 1999
Edward Hoagland, André Aciman & others, 1999

Last days
Joyce Carol Oates, 1984

Fiction
R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1993

USA noir
Johnny Temple, Dennis Lehane & others, 2013

Transgressions
Evan Hunter, Jeffery Deaver & others, 2005

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling & others, 1996

Cardiff, by the Sea
Joyce Carol Oates, 2021

First love
Joyce Carol Oates, 1996

Crossing the Border
Lisa Tuttle, Poppy Z. Brite & others, 1998

Expensive people
Joyce Carol Oates, 1968
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