From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in
the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny
stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You
brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best
known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic
essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory
personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most
frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and
neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and
subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is
the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different
modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent
storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist. 'The
stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely
unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... The whole
of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind, which
was ruminant and generous ... For those of us whose imaginations,
and creative ambitions, were ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson
remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the
darker impulses' - Paul Theroux, New York Times 'Shirley Jackson
made a reputation with a short story in 1948. Like a lot of people
I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an anthology of short
stories from the New Yorker, and never forgot it. Let Me Tell You
is a rich, enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction
and occasional writings, kicking off with a story of a dozen pages,
'Paranoia', which I won't forget, either' - Tom Stoppard, TLS Books
of the Year
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