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Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows yet another aspect of her unbounded creativity in these tales of the grotesque. Haunted, a collection of sixteen tales that range from classic ghost stories to portrayals of chilling psychological terror, raises the genre to the level of fine literature ? complex, multi-layered, and
gripping fiction that is very scary indeed.In the title story, ?Haunted,? the pubescent Melissa and her best friend, the sexually precocious Mary Lou, ignore ?no trespassing? signs to explore forbidden houses. But the deserted Minton farm is one place where they should not have gone, and years later Melissa is tormented by her memories of its malevolence... and the murder of Mary Lou. In the novella, ?The Model,? a sexual threat seems to underlie the interaction between young Sybil Blake and ?Mr. Starr,? who asks her to be his model, but the truth about her own identity, and his, shows that