Description: Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific and revered contemporary American writers. She has won numerous awards and her books have sold millions of copies. The Pursuit is a gloriously creepy, fine-tuned, and stylized short novel. This is the first novel that Joyce has written for The Mysterious Press since her very successful Jack of Spades in 2015. Oates's collections and novels for The Mysterious Press continue to garner more and more awards attention. Jack of Spades was named one of the Seattle Times's 10 best mysteries of the year and a Publishers Weekly top 10 mystery & thriller for spring 2015. "The Woman in the Window" from her 2018 collection, Night-Gaunts, was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; "The Crawl Space" from DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense won the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story. The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, and included the story "Big Momma," which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story. Her first collection for The Mysterious Press, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, also won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Oates continues to make waves in the press and on social media. In September, she was the subject of a feature in Interview magazine titled "15 Famous Authors Ask Joyce Carol Oates Anything"--authors who posed their questions to Oates included Stephen King, Lorrie Moore, Gyllian Flynn, and Bret Easton Ellis, among others. Oates has over 190k Twitter followers.

Please Wait