Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates published in 2018 by The Mysterious Press. "The Woman in the Window" was anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories in 2017.
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Reviewer Michael Thomas Barry at The New York Review of Books questions the clarity and purpose of these stories:
The title of the collection is derived from Gothic writer H. P. Lovecraft's autobiographical report of his disturbing childhood nightmares involving faceless monsters. Oates selected the Lovecraft poem "Night-Gaunts" for the volumes's epigraph. His work was originally published in Weird Tales, December, 1939.
Literary critic Eric K. Anderson regards the volume as a suitable homage to Lovecraft and Oates's literary debt to him: "In fact, the titular story which ends the book is a tribute to and a fictional re-imagining of Lovecraft's life."
Anderson adds that the collection as a whole "skillfully invokes the tortured imagination of Lovecraft and form utterly compelling modern tales of suspense."