The Museum of Dr. Moses (Paperback)

from laytonwoman3rd

Everyone always says this, but it's true...this woman's output it just astonishing. And the places her imagination takes her....yikes! In this collection of short stories she gets inside the heads of some very scary people, and does brilliant things for the reader. She loves to take a concept tha...

from carlahaunted

Oates' stories, especially the title story, give me that delicious, frightened feeling while reading...the certain knowledge that this cannot be going any place I want to go...I want to stop reading but I can't stop reading.... Marvelous.

from davidabrams

Stories to Set Your Mind at Unease The "tales of mystery and suspense" in Joyce Carol Oates' The Museum of Dr. Moses are sneaky little things. The horror comes in on cat's paws, barely noticeable. The full impact doesn't hit you until a few hours or days or even weeks after you have set the book ...

from thom001

Fans of mystery stories tinged with a hint of evil and madness will find a high quality collection in Joyce Carol Oates's The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. Oates chooses a genre not usually considered serious literature and, with her talent for acute psychological observatio...

from ParadisePorch

This is only the second Oates I've read, the first being the more-or-less conventional We Were the Mulvaneys that did not prepare me in any way for this collection of short stories, which are billed "mystery and suspense". The suspense I get; I'm not so sure about mystery. All of the stories have...