cover image Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

Joyce Carol Oates. Plume Books, $15 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27374-0

The prolific NBA-winning author presents 16 multifarious horror stories ranging from a reworking of James's The Turn of the Screw to macabre, contemporary thrillers. (Feb.)