The Museum of Dr. Moses

0-15-101531-7 (first edition)OCLC74460086
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22LC ClassPS3565.A8 M87 2007Preceded byHigh Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966–2006 

The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates[1] comprising ten thriller and horror stories. The collection was published in 2007 by Harcourt.

Synopsis

In "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death—and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Suicide Watch" must determine whether the horrifying tale his junkie son tells him about the boy’s whereabouts is a confession or a sick test. In "Valentine, July Heat Wave" a man prepares a gruesome surprise for the wife determined to leave him. And the children of a BTK-style serial killer struggle to decode the patterns behind their father’s seemingly random bad acts, as well as their own, in "Bad Habits."

Reception

Kirkus Reviews described the collection as "surreal interior landscapes, shamelessly incantatory prose and an enduring ambivalence toward the neo-gothic conventions from which Oates draws her power to shock and dismay."[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Horrors of the Everyday". The Washington Post. October 28, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
  2. ^ "The Museum of Dr. Moses". Kirkus Reviews. May 19, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
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Works by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wonderland Quartet
The Gothic Saga
  • Bellefleur (1980)
  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
  • The Accursed (2013)
Other novels
Novellas
  • Black Water (1992)
  • First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
  • Beasts (2001)
  • The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
  • A Fair Maiden (2010)
Short story collections
Short stories
Young adult fiction