Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong

"A dazzling, disturbing, tour de force of Gothic suspense: four odd, compelling, ingeniously narrated tales that gain in power and resonance when read in conjunction with each other."--Boston Globe

"These potboilers about murder, obsession and death have a genre funkiness, a greasy pulp seaminess, that is reminiscent of forgotten subscription serials and old "Twilight Zone" installments. . . . For Oates, whose worldview is as flinty as that of any of her male peers, true horror is rooted not in the supernatural--that would be almost reassuring--but in the things that men and women do to each other under the spell of attraction."--Washington Post

"These four Gothic tales run the gamut from creepy to mesmerizing. . . . All the while, [Oates] slyly critiques our culture, from parents who don't protect their young daughters from sexual predators to killers hopped up on prescription meds."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Exquisitely suspenseful. . . . The relationships between the damaged, sometimes monstrous individuals who people these pages will keep the reader riveted."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Love doesn't just go wrong between Oates' characters, it blows up, drips poison, tortures, kills. . . . This is among her better quick-turn efforts. Each of its novellas makes your skin crawl even as it also seems completely believable, like something you heard once, from where, you can't remember."--Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

"This is familiar Oates territory, mapped with artistry and care; dark, bloody, and unforgiving."--Barnes & Noble Review

"An extraordinarily vivid depiction of lives gone awry. . . . A creepy, macabre thrill from start to finish. . . . Terrific stuff."--Independent (UK)

"Oates at her best--spare, swift, beautifully observed and quietly lethal."--Times (UK)

"Immediately engaging . . . [the] suspense is palpable."--Shenandoah

"With her focus on deviant and twisted characters, Oates continues to be a worthy descendant of the gothic tradition of Edgar Allan Poe."--Kirkus Reviews

"A quartet of shrewd and unnerving novellas. . . . Oates has a superbly disconcerting gift for orchestrating slowly coalescing realizations that something is horribly wrong."--Booklist

"A stunningly written, disturbing masterpiece. . . . The four worlds that Oates gives us here pull in the reader until she finds herself too fascinated to leave--even when everything gets creepy."--Bustle.com