A review by gingin
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

2.0

While I enjoyed a story or two in this collection, overall it just wasn't for me. I've never read anything by this author previously, so I'm unsure about this being her usual writing style, but I found the formatting to be bothersome. I'm not a fan of loose punctuation, and stunted, stream-of-consciousness style writing that all runs together. This was a little bit too much of that for my liking.

I also found the stories to be more of the "troubling" and "disturbing" variety, rather than scary.

So this would be a hard pass from me if you don't like those sort of things.