Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense

By: Oates, Joyce Carol

A BBC and New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2024

A new collection of stories by one of America's greatest writers.

These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink. She finally decides that she will join him when he suggests they meet at his home. A man is so forgetful that his wife panics and yells into his phone, asking where their daughter has gone. A young man is curious to see why sirens have filled the night and the police arrest him, beginning an unimaginable nightmare. A woman resents that a colleague has achieved greater success and thinks she ought to do something about it.

It is impossible to know where a story by the creative genius of Joyce Carol Oates will end and what frightening paths will lead to that end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613167164
• ISBN13: 9781613167168
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.2"