Oates, Joyce Carol  , 1938- <br/><br/>
The accursed  : a novel 
/ Joyce Carol Oates 
 - New York  : HarperCollins  , c2013 
 - 669 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Author's note -- Prologue -- Part 1:  Demon Bridegroom: -- Ash Wednesday eve, 1905 -- Postscript:  Ash Wednesday eve, 1905 -- Narcissus -- Spectral daughter -- Angel trumpet; or, Mr Mayte of Virginia -- Author's Note:  Princeton snobbery -- Unspeakable I -- Burning girl -- Author's Note:  Historian's confession -- Spectral wife -- Demon bridegroom -- Part 2:  Curse Incarnate: -- Duel -- Postscript: Historian's dilemma -- Unspeakable II -- Cruel husband -- Search cont'd -- October 1905 -- God's creation as viewed from the evolutionary hypothesis -- Phantom lovers -- Turquoise-marbled book -- Bog kingdom -- Postscript: Archaeopteryx -- Curse incarnate -- Part 3:  Brain, Within Its Groove: -- Voices -- Bluestocking temptress -- Glass owl -- Ratiocination our salvation -- Ochre-runnered sleigh -- Snake frenzy -- Postscript: Nature's burden -- Defeat at Charleston -- My precious darling -- Narrow fellow in the grass -- Dr Schuyler Skaats Wheeler's Novelty Machine -- Quatre face -- Angel trumpet elucidated -- Armageddon -- Part 4:  Curse Exorcised: -- Cold spring -- 21 May 1906 -- Lieutenant Bayard by night -- Postscript:  On the matter of the "unspeakable" at Princeton -- Here dwells happiness -- Nordic soul -- Terra Incognita I -- Terra Incognita II -- Wheatsheaf enigma I -- Wheatsheaf enigma II -- Sole living heir of nothingness -- Temptation of Woodrow Wilson -- Postscript:  Second battle of Princeton -- Dr De Sweinitz's prescription -- Curse exorcised -- Game of draughts -- Death of Winslow Slade -- Revolution is the hour of laughter -- Crosswicks miracle -- Epilogue:  Covenant. 
<br/><br/> In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062234353 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012532433 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blessing and cursing----Fiction<br/>Lynching----Fiction<br/>Demonology----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Princeton (NJ)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Paranormal----Fiction<br/>Horror fiction<br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3565.A8  / A64 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC OAT