There are authors who transcend the genre to which they are delivered in each of their new novels. It is the case of Oates And it happens with this pack of gloomy inspiration but that supposes a whole approach to the ultimate reach of death, to the attempts of spiritual communication with those who occupied shared spaces in some way, only that they before us ...
In Maude Donegal's Legacy, Clare, adopted when she was just two years old, suddenly receives a call to inform her that she has inherited a property on the rugged coast of Maine. The mysterious legatee turns out to be her biological paternal grandmother, whom she had never heard of before. But soon enough, what awaits Clare upon her arrival in the small town of Cardiff will make her wish she had never answered the phone ...
The surviving son is Stefan, who managed to save himself when his mother, a renowned poet, killed his sister before committing suicide. Years after the tragedy, when her father remarried, a new nightmare began for the young wife: voices in the wind, a well and a blind and inexplicable magnetism towards the same place where two lives were once extinguished ...
In the two short novels included in this volume, Joyce Carol Oates, one of the great figures of contemporary American letters, pays a masterful tribute to the Gothic genre with its fascinating ability to adopt the most diverse literary forms and tones. His accurate prose, which makes any word seem decisive for the outcome of the story, always leaves us with the disturbing suspicion that what is really happening is not exactly how we perceive it. And it is that intrigue and that terror that trap us hopelessly.
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