# Cardiff, by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)

From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of _BLONDE_, now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present.  
  
A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends a feral cat that protects her from the increasingly aggressive men that surround her.  
  
A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing. And a widower remarries, but finds his young bride haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind.  
  
**'A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural.' _Daily Mail_**  
  
**Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates:**  
  
'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' **_Guardian_**  
'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' **_Sunday Express_**  
'Both haunting and sublime.' _**Literary Review**_  
'Splendidly chilling.' **_Financial Times_**  
'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' **_Booklist_**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Head of Zeus
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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> Updated: 2026-09-12