The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror

　　From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories.

　　In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they? In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is thrilled when her favorite teacher asks her to house-sit, even on short notice. But when an intruder forces his way into the house while the girl is there, the fate of more than one life is changed forever. In “Equatorial,” set in the exotic Galapagos, an affluent American wife experiences disorienting assaults upon her sense of who her charismatic husband really is, and what his plans may be for her.

　　In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.

作者簡介

喬伊斯‧卡洛‧奧茲（Joyce Carol Oates）

　　喬伊斯．卡洛．奧茲寫作以來得獎無數，曾獲美國 國家書評協會頒發的伊凡．桑德羅夫終生成就獎、國家書卷獎、美國筆會／馬拉姆傑出短篇小說獎（PEN/Malamud）。著有當代最為雋永的小說，包括叫 好叫座的《我們是馬爾瓦尼一家》（We Were the Mulvaneys）、入圍國家書卷獎與普立茲獎的《浮生如夢》（Blonde）、《紐約時報》暢銷書《大瀑布》（The Falls）、《掘墓人的女兒》（The Gravedigger’s Daughter）。奧茲亦跨足青少年小說，作品包括《大嘴巴和醜女孩》（Big Mouth & Ugly Girl）、《奇異的綠眼睛》（Freaky Green Eyes）、《逆風飛翔》（After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away）、《性．性感》（Sexy）等。奧茲擔任普林斯頓大學人文學院特聘教授，從一九七八年以來，亦是美國藝術暨文學學會會員。二〇〇三年，獲得共同 財富文學卓越貢獻奬，二〇〇六年，獲《芝加哥論壇報》終身成就獎。

　　Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.