The psychological suspense fiction tends to be somewhat horrific. I don’t believe that he’s thinking in terms of specific genres like mystery or detective fiction. Otto is very friendly to writing that is surreal or may verge upon gothic or horror. It’s not terribly distinctive in terms of being these categories.
He edits anthologies and mysteries and suspense fiction. I don’t think it’s necessarily just depending on the bookstore. You said you have this relationship with Otto Penzler and Mysterious Press? Say a little more about Mysterious Press because this is associated with his bookstore, right? That’s definitely something that we like here-the surreal and creepy sort of stories like that. It has a firmly realistic foundation, and then it eases and morphs into this other dimension. I’m very drawn to the surreal, not exactly fantasy, but the kind of fiction that bleeds into another dimension, so to speak. I tend to write stories that accrue around certain themes or certain types of genre. The stories have been written over a period of time, and I have an ongoing relationship with Otto Penlzer, at the Mysterious Press, so he’s published a number of my novellas and short story collections. Tell us a bit about the story behind this book and how it came about. Your new book is called The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror.
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This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by David Barr Kirtley and produced by John Joseph Adams. Her latest book is The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud award for excellence in short fiction and the National Book Award. Joyce Carol Oates is the author more than seventy books, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde.
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