![]() ![]() The seemingly inevitable fate of Marissa becomes ever more terrifying as Judah relishes her power, leading to unbearable tension with a shocking conclusion. ![]() Unsuspected is Judah (born Judith), an older girl from the same school who has told two friends in her thrall of the Indian legend of the Corn Maiden, a girl sacrificed to ensure a good crop. Obvious clues - perhaps too obvious - point directly to him. ![]() Suspicion falls on a computer teacher at her school with no alibi for the time of the abduction. ![]() She finally calls the police, who want to know why she left her young daughter alone until 8:00 o’clock. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. ![]()
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