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Title: American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0-452-27489-3 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An entertaining and suspensful genre of literature
Comment: With authors such as Poe, King, Bradbury and many other well known authors we can be nothing less than pleased with this genre. Joyce Carol Oates chose many wonderful short stories to combine together to make up American Gothic Tales. In rereading Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" I found there to be more insight to the story than I remember before; such as the childrens names and the computer taking the role of humans. In "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Lovely House" we see the effects of the confining roles put on women. We see how it changed their lives and who they were. In John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio" a woman learns about her neighbors through her radio. Later she finds that she is just like them and is left with a not so happily ever after. With stories set in the past and up to the future the book has a varity of stories. In Bruce McAllister's "The Gril Who Loved Animals" we are introduced to a picture of the future. We see a young woman who is carrying a gorilla baby, and that the new fad is to be of both genders. To complete the gothic tales genre you must have your usual serial killer and blood and guts. In Breece D'J Pancake's "Time and Again" we hear a story told by the serial killer himself. Although the man has no motivation to kill, except to keep his pigs fed, he has killed many people who were passing through the town. Now in his older age he has lost the will and energy to kill anyone else. He comes back home to his pigs and wonders what to do with his life now; continue on or offer himself to the pigs. With some happy endings, others sad and some leaving you to wonder you get a wide range of gothic tales that leaves you satisfied with investing in a wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book to read on a wet, lazy day.
Comment: American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oats, is a wonderful compilation of short stories from the bizzare and twisted to the utterly grotesque. This book includes authors known for their horrific tales like Edgar Allen Poe and Anne Rice, to others such as Charolette Perkins Gilman and Mark Twain, who I would not expect to be included in this anthology of gothic tales. "Freniere" by Anne Rice (one of my favorite storytellers) takes your imagination to the mysterious and historical city of New Orleans.In some hotel room in the French Quarter, a vampire named Louis tells the agonizing story of his life as the undead. Shirly Jackson's perplexing story "The Lovely House" will keep you guessing the entire time you are reading this haunted tale. The most thought provoking story I read was "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charolette Perkins Gilman. This is a tale of a woman who's greatest enjoyment comes from writing, but due to the repression by her husband and the times she lives in, she is denied her greatest pleasure. As you turn each page, you will find yourself joining in her downward spiral to insanity. Of coarse a collection of gothic tales would not be complete without a story from Poe. Oats pick, "The Black Cat" explores the maddness of a man addicted to alcohol and the cruelties he inflicts upon his beloved cat Pluto, and wife.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not my usual
Comment: I usually stick to bestsellers or Oprah club selections like THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER or McCrae's THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD, but this one caught my eye. Then again, it does that that southern gothic title, so this was probably the reason, and the McCullers and McCrae are at their core, gothic. At any rate, I'm not a Oates fan, but this is by far the best thing she's done. I'd give it ten stars if they allowed it. VERY well written and entertaining without being overly commercial.
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Title: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ISBN: 0140071083 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry James ISBN: 0486266842 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jerrold E. Hogle ISBN: 0521794668 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0553272543 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Gothic Tradition (Cambridge Contexts in Literature) by David Stevens, Adrian Barlow ISBN: 0521777321 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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