Six feverishly unsettling suspense stories from Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of Blonde, now a major motion picture. A woman sits in an apartment she can't afford, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, as her married lover rushes amorously, murderously, to her door. An elderly, envious wife devises an unusual game of Russian roulette involving two Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction. A former Sunday School teacher's body is discovered, and the blighted adolescent she had petted and mocked confesses to her murder - but is he truly to blame? In this fantastic homage to H.P. Lovecraft, a young outsider is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the visible spectrum after his death.