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Fiction Series Novels
- Bellefleur (1980)
- A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
- Lives of the Twins (1987) [only as by Rosamond Smith]
- Soul/Mate (1989) [only as by Rosamond Smith]
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Rape: A Love Story (2003)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Kosto: rakkaustarina [Finnish] (2011)
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After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Un endroit où se cacher [French] (2010)
- The Accursed (2013)
- Jack of Spades (2015)
- Hazards of Time Travel (2018)
- By the North Gate (1963)
- The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975)
- Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
- Demon and Other Tales (1996)
- The Collector of Hearts (1998)
- Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)
- The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006)
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The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Le musée du Dr Moses : histoires de mystère et de suspense [French] (2012)
- Wild Nights! (2008)
- Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
- Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017)
- Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (2018)
- Cardiff, by the Sea (2020)
- The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021)
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Zombie / Der Dämon?Zombie / Der Daemon[German] (2005) [O] with Hubert Selby
- American Gothic Tales (1996)
- The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (2012)
- A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (2024)
- Queen of the Night (1979)
- The Bingo Master (1992)
- First Love (1996)
- Beasts (2001)
- The Sign of the Beast (2017)
- Pursuit (2019)
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? (1971)
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Translation: Încotro pleci? De unde vii??Incotro pleci? De unde vii?[Romanian] (2000)
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The Spiral (1969)
only appeared as:
- Translation: Die Spirale [German] (1984)
- Bodies (1970)
- Distance (1975)
- Husband and Wife (1975)
- Impotence (1975)
- In a Public Place (1975)
- Journey (1975)
- Letters to Fernandes from a Young American Poet (1975)
- Loss (1975)
- Maimed (1975)
- Our Lady of the Easy Death of Alferce (1975)
- Parricide (1975)
- Plagiarized Material (1975)
- Sunlight / Twilight (1975)
- The Brain of Dr. Vicente (1975)
- The Cruel Master (1975)
- The Enchanted Piano (1975)
- The Letter (1975)
- The Murderer (1975)
- The Poisoned Kiss (1975)
- The Secret Mirror (1975)
- The Seduction (1975)
- The Son of God and His Sorrow (1975)
- Two Young Men (1975)
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Further Confessions (1977)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Weitere Bekenntnisse [German] (1982)
- Translation: Weitere Bekenntnisse [German] (1985)
- Night-Side (1977)
- Queen of the Night (1979)
- Bellefleur (excerpt) (1980)
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The Doll (1980)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Puppe [German] (1985)
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The Bingo Master (1980)
also appeared as:
- Translation: De Bingo Meester [Dutch] (1983)
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The Rose Wall (1981)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Eine Wand aus Rosen [German] (1984)
- The Sunken Woman (1981)
- The Others (1987)
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Haunted (1987)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Das Spukhaus [German] (1990)
- The White Cat (1987)
- Blue-Bearded Lover (1988)
- Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl (1988)
- The Stadium (1988)
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The Damnation of A--- K--- (1989)
also appeared as:
- Translation: La maledizione di A--- K--- [Italian] (1990)
- Translation: Die Verdammung des A. K. [German] (1990)
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Family (1989)
also appeared as:
- Translation: La Famiglia [Italian] (1995)
- Pregnant (1990)
- Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time (1990)
- Ladies and Gentlemen (1990)
- The Guilty Party (1991)
- Tone Clusters (1991)
- Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly (1992)
- Don't You Trust Me? (1992)
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Martyrdom (1992)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Martyrium [German] (1996)
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Poor Thing (1992)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Poor Bibi (1992)
- Schroeder's Stepfather (1992)
- The Artist (1992)
- Abandoned (1992)
- Actress (1992)
- Angry (1992)
- Area Man Found Crucified (1992)
- Bare Legs (1992)
- Beauty Salon (1992)
- Biopsy (1992)
- Cuckold (1992)
- Embrace (1992)
- Forgive Me! (1992)
- From the Life of ... (1992)
- Imperial Presidency (1992)
- Insomnia (1992)
- Lethal (1992)
- Letter, Lover (1992)
- Love, Forever (1992)
- Murder (1992)
- My Madman (1992)
- Old Dog (1992)
- Pain (1992)
- Running (1992)
- Sweet! (1992)
- The Date (1992)
- The Escape (1992)
- The False Mirror (1992)
- The Heir (1992)
- The Ice Pick (1992)
- The Maker of Parables (1992)
- The Mother (1992)
- The Wig (1992)
- Transfigured Night (1992)
- Turquoise (1992)
- Where Is Here? (1992)
- Extenuating Circumstances (1992)
- The Premonition (1992)
- The Omen (1993)
- The Radio Astronomer (1993)
- Phase Change (1993)
- Thanksgiving (1993)
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An Urban Paradox (1994)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Ein großstädtisches Paradoxon [German] (1999)
- Blind (1994)
- Fever Blisters (1994)
- The Sepulchre (1994)
- Posthumous (1994)
- Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? (1994)
- What I Lived For (1994)
- Brothers (1994)
- Death Astride Bicycle (1995)
- Death Mother (1995)
- Labor Day (1995)
- The Affliction (1995)
- The Crossing (1995)
- The Hands (1995)
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- Intensive (1996)
- Leave Me Alone God Damn You (1996)
- Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon! (1996)
- The Dream-Catcher (1996)
- The Journey (1996)
- Unprintable (1996)
- Valentine (1996)
- Demon (1996)
- The Temple (1996)
- First Love (1996)
- Physical (1996)
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Nobody Knows My Name (1996)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Personne ne connaît mon nom [French] (1999)
- Translation: Niemand weiß, wie ich heiß [German] (2019)
- Scars (1997)
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The Sky-Blue Ball (1997)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Sky Blue Ball (1997)
- In the Insomniac Night (1997)
- A Manhattan Romance (1997)
- Broke Heart Blues (1998)
- Shadows of the Evening (1998)
- The Collector of Hearts (1998)
- The Sons of Angus MacElster (1998)
- Feral (1998)
- The Last Man of Letters (1998)
- Zombi [Serbian] (1999)
- Summer Sweat (1999)
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The Ruins of Contracoeur (1999)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Ruinen von Contracoeur [German] (1999)
- Translation: Les ruines de Contracoeur [French] (1999)
- You, Little Match-Girl (2000)
- In Shock (2000)
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Commencement (2001)
also appeared as:
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Translation: La remise des diplômes?La remise des diplomes[French] (2004)
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Translation:
- The High School Sweetheart (2001)
- Tell Me You Forgive Me? (2001)
- Angel of Mercy (2001)
- The Museum of Dr. Moses (2001)
- Hunger (2001)
- Beasts (2001)
- Angel of Wrath (2002)
- The Visit (2003)
- The Haunting (2003)
- Subway (2003)
- Stripping (2004)
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (2004)
- Six Hypotheses (2004)
- The Banshee (2004)
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The Fabled Light-house at Vina del Mar (2004)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House (2004)
- EDickinsonRepliLuxe (2006)
- Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish, 1906 (2006)
- Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi (2006)
- Madison at Guignol (2006)
- So Help Me God (2006)
- Apoca ca lyp se: A Dip tych (2007)
- Papa at Ketchum, 1961 (2007)
- The Little Sacrifice (2007)
- The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1914–1916 (2007)
- Valentine, July Heat Wave (2007)
- Beasts (excerpt) (2007)
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Face (2007)
also appeared as:
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Translation: Fața?Fata[Romanian] (2011)
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Translation:
- EDickinsonRepliLyx [Swedish] (2008)
- Uranus (2009)
- Tiger Kitty (2009)
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Fossil-Figures (2010)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Fossile Figuren [German] (2019)
- Translation: Figuras Fósseis [Portuguese] (2019)
- A Brutal Murder in a Public Place (2011)
- Vena Cava (2011)
- Anniversary (2012)
- Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
- Deceit (2012)
- Hey Dad (2012)
- I.D. (2012)
- Roma! (2012)
- Run Kiss Daddy (2012)
- San Quentin (2012)
- Spotted Hyenas: A Romance (2012)
- The Good Samaritan (2012)
- A Game of Draughts (2013)
- 'Evangeline Fife' Interviews Robert Frost (2013)
- Lorelei (2014)
- Walking Wounded (2015)
- Undocumented Alien (2016)
- The Crawl Space (2016)
- Fractal (2017)
- Great Blue Heron (2017)
- The Experimental Subject (2017)
- The Long-Legged Girl (2017)
- The Sign of the Beast (2017)
- Les Beaux Jours (2017)
- The Surviving Child (2019)
- Pursuit (2019)
- The Appointment (2020)
- Cardiff, by the Sea (2020)
- Miao Dao (2020)
- Phantomwise: 1972 (2020)
- Monstersister (2021)
- Mr. Stickum (2021)
- Río Piedra (2021)
- The Cold (2021)
- The Redwoods (2021)
- Miss Golden Dreams (2021)
- Bone Marrow Dance (2021)
- Take Me, I Am Free (2021)
- 33 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (2022)
- 'The Father of Modern Gynecology': J. Marion Syms, M.D. (1813-1883) (2022)
- The Chair of Tranquility (from the Fish of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) (2023)
- Letters (Riverside Quarterly, August 1972) (1972)
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Introduction to The Philosopher's Stone (1973)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Prefazione all'edizione americana (Specie immortale) [Italian] (2000)
- Introduction (Bellefleur) (1980)
- Introduction (The Turn of the Screw) (1982)
- Afterword (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) (1984)
- Special Message for the First Edition (Mysteries of Winterthurn) (1984)
- Frankenstein's Fallen Angel (1984)
- Foreword (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (1990)
- Introduction (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (1991)
- Afterword (Haunted) (1994)
- Reflections on the Grotesque (1994)
- Introduction (American Gothic Tales) (1996)
- H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction (1997)
- Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop (1997)
- Introduction: Why We Read, Why We Write (1997)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (introduction) (2000)
- The Gothic Tradition in American Literature (2001)
- Why Is Your Writing So Violent? (2004)
- Portrait (2007)
- Afterword (We Have Always Lived in the Castle) (2009)
- Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film (2011)
- Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer (2011)
- The Storyteller: Patrick McGrath (2017)
- Introduction (A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers) (2023)
- Her Heart Laid Bare: Joyce Carol Oates Interviewed (1999) by Robert Parkinson
- Joyce Carol Oates: January 28, 1998 (2001) by Beth Gwinn and Stanley Wiater
- Strange Fruit and Weird Girls: A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates (2014) by Danel Olson
- Interview: Joyce Carol Oates (2014) by Lisa Morton
- Author Spotlight: Joyce Carol Oates (2014) by Lisa Nohealani Morton
- Interview: Joyce Carol Oates (2016) by David Barr Kirtley
Non-Genre Titles
Novels
- A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
- them (1969)
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Zombie (1995)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Zombie [German] (2000)
- My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
- Night-Side (1977)
- Where Is Here? (1992)
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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Sieben Reisen in den Abgrund [German] (2019)
- High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014)
- The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016)
- Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2021)
- A Legacy (1963)
- An Encounter with the Blind (1963)
- Boys at a Picnic (1963)
- By the North Gate (1963)
- Ceremonies (1963)
- Edge of the World (1963)
- Images (1963)
- In the Old World (1963)
- Pastoral Blood (1963)
- Swamps (1963)
- Sweet Love Remembered (1963)
- The Census Taker (1963)
- The Expense of Spirit (1963)
- The Fine White Mist of Winter (1963)
- Upon the Sweeping Flood (1963)
- In the Region of Ice (1966)
- Four Summers (1967)
- How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again (1969)
- Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate! (1970)
- The Turn of the Screw (1971)
- Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? (1972)
- A Theory of Knowledge (1977)
- Bloodstains (1977)
- Daisy (1977)
- Exile (1977)
- Famine Country (1977)
- Fatal Woman (1977)
- Lover (1977)
- The Blessing (1977)
- The Dungeon (1977)
- The Giant Woman (1977)
- The Murder (1977)
- The Sacrifice (1977)
- The Snowstorm (1977)
- The Thaw (1977)
- The Translation (1977)
- The Widows (1977)
- Master Race (1986)
- Shot (1990)
- Life After High School (1991)
- The Model (1992)
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Death-Cup (1997)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Totenmahl [German] (2019)
- Bad Girls (1997)
- The Dark Prince (1999)
- Capricorn (2003)
- Small Avalanches (2003)
-
The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Corn Maiden (2005)
- Translation: Die Maisjungfer [German] (2019)
- Landfill (2006)
-
A Hole in the Head (2010)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Loch im Kopf [German] (2019)
-
Beersheba (2010)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Beersheba [German] (2019)
-
Helping Hands (2011)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Helfende Hände [German] (2019)
- Mystery, Inc. (2014)
- Equatorial (2014)
- Soldier (2015)
- The Doll-Master (2015)
- Gun Accident: An Investigation (2015)
- Big Momma (2016)
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The Woman in the Window (2016)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Frau am Fenster [German] (2017)