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Queen of the Night

Joyce Carol Oates

First published 1979
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"In 'Queen of the Night,' an attractive woman in her fifties divorces her husband and succumbs to the infatuation of a much younger, thoroughly useless young man. Within her she feels a power develop that she had not recognized before, and by the story's end—though nothing has been explained—the young man introduces her to his coven of night friends as Queen of the Night: Hecate, goddess of witches and the underworld, a female principle incarnate." (Peter Prescott)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1979 Cover Queen of the Night Lord John Press Chapbook
July 1982 Cover The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories Arbor House Anthology 264
July 1982 The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology