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The Frenzy: Stories
A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely...
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A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New York Times Magazine) "A genius in the truest sense of the word."--Rebecca Makkai
"One of the greatest writers among us today."--Gillian Flynn
"Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . . . Oates's best work is simmering and remorseless."--Vogue
"Astounding . . . Oates imbues this entire book with psychological suspense and high stakes."--Harper's Bazaar
"[A] terrific collection."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Haper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Lit Hub, AARP
Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone. A young woman on a supposedly romantic weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, turns the tables on her older, married lover. A freak bicycle accident on a bridge haunts one family for decades. A girl jealous of her popular cousin discovers she is the lucky one. A widow waits at her riverside house for her dead husband's return. A young man hiking in the woods comes upon a couple in a heated, possibly violent argument--should he intervene? Suspenseful and psychologically astute, Oates's short stories enthrall and captivate as they dissect her character's deepest fears--revealing our own in turn. "Literature is a texture of words," says Oates of her short fiction, "evoking life in the most vivid ways--psychologically, physically." These new stories blazingly evoke life at its most vivid and perilous, when fate and free will intersect, and one ominous encounter or bad choice can be the difference between an ordinary day and the point of no return.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.70w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780593978115
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2026
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to "a master of the thriller and noir literary genre."
"One of the greatest writers among us today."--Gillian Flynn
"Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . . . Oates's best work is simmering and remorseless."--Vogue
"Astounding . . . Oates imbues this entire book with psychological suspense and high stakes."--Harper's Bazaar
"[A] terrific collection."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Haper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Lit Hub, AARP
Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone. A young woman on a supposedly romantic weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, turns the tables on her older, married lover. A freak bicycle accident on a bridge haunts one family for decades. A girl jealous of her popular cousin discovers she is the lucky one. A widow waits at her riverside house for her dead husband's return. A young man hiking in the woods comes upon a couple in a heated, possibly violent argument--should he intervene? Suspenseful and psychologically astute, Oates's short stories enthrall and captivate as they dissect her character's deepest fears--revealing our own in turn. "Literature is a texture of words," says Oates of her short fiction, "evoking life in the most vivid ways--psychologically, physically." These new stories blazingly evoke life at its most vivid and perilous, when fate and free will intersect, and one ominous encounter or bad choice can be the difference between an ordinary day and the point of no return.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.70w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780593978115
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2026
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to "a master of the thriller and noir literary genre."
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