Trade PaperbackNew York Times Bestsellng AuthorA major historical novel from “one of the great artistic forces of our time” (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss, in early twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned“Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it.”—Stephen King, New York Times Book Review, front cover review“A grand literary pastiche in style and substance…. Oates' atmospheric prose beautifully captures the flavor of gothic fiction.”—Deobrah Harkness, NPR