Thanksgiving
Spooning stuffing rich with spices into the bird’s scooped-out body, sewing the hole shut, basting with melted fat, roasting. As dead-clammy meat turns to edible meat. As revulsion turns to appetite.
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
By Joyce Carol Oates New York: Dutton, 1994 310 Pages Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows […]
Reflections on the Grotesque
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published as an Afterword to Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque What is the “grotesque”—and what is “horror”—in art? And why do these seemingly repellent states of […]
Celestial Timepiece 