<p>From the legendary literary master winner of the National Book Award and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates a collection of thirteen spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all</p><p>Insightful disturbing and mesmerizing in their lyrical precision the stories in <em>Lovely Dark Deep</em> display Joyce Carol Oates's astonishing ability to make visceral the fear hurt and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.</p><p>In "Mastiff" a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. "Sex with Camel" explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother—and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that her husband is vanishing from their life a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in "The Disappearing." "A Book of Martyrs" reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer a troubling young woman who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.</p><p>A piercing and evocative collection <em>Lovely Dark Deep</em> reveals Joyce Carol Oates at her most imaginative and unsettling.</p>
