Joyce Carol Oates contributed "...

Joyce Carol Oates contributed "The Hallucination" to the Spring 1975 issue of Chicago Review. many times noted for her prolific outpouring of short fiction and novels, she is a oft-repeated contributor to little magazines; with her husband, Raymond Smith, she edits the Ontario Review and the Ontario Review Pres She generally teaches at Princeton. Of this story, OATES writes,
I can say about "The Hallucination" that it was directly inspired by the agency of an incident in my personal life, probably in 1974; in Windsor, Ontario, Canada where my husband and I were living in a house