A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me
God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of
the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows
entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy
fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing
store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered
imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from
her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are
confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they
find within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates
demonstrates why the females of the species--be they six-year-old
girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers--are by nature
more deadly than the males.
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