The corn maiden and other nightmares
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A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
Short storiesAmerican Horror fictionHuman sacrificeFictionFiction, suspenseSingle women, fictionMothers and daughters, fiction