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Hangsaman (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Francine Prose
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Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college.
Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a
tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie
finally does get away, however, college life doesn't bring the
happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer
certain of anything--even where reality ends and her dark
imaginings begin. Chilling and suspenseful, "Hangsaman "is loosely
based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College
sophomore in 1946.
'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a
miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a
mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna
Tartt Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister
Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to
preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was
acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't
leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives,
armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into
the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the
remaining family. With an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates 'The world
of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true
master' A. M. Homes 'A masterpiece of Gothic suspense' Joyce Carol
Oates 'If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ...
you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration
for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit
Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of
the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most
terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt Alone in the world, Eleanor is
delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in
the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic
'sensitive', and Luke, heir to the house. But what begins as a
light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their
darkest nightmares, and an investigation that one of their number
may not survive. Twice filmed as The Haunting, and the inspiration
for a 10-part Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a
powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror. 'An amazing
writer ... If you haven't read her you have missed out on something
marvellous' Neil Gaiman 'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as
I have ever read' Stephen King 'The world of Shirley Jackson is
eerie and unforgettable' A. M. Homes 'Shirley Jackson is one of
those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers...whose work exerts
an enduring spell' Joyce Carol Oates
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The Sundial (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Victor Lavalle
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Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of
Jackson's stunningly creepy fourth novel, "The Sundial." When the
Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is
surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into
the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing
vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their
hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in
growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible
new world.
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The Bird's Nest (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Kevin Wilson
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Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at
a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting
off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer
terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor,
then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson's
characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one
girl--but four separate, self-destructive personalities. "The
Bird's Nest," Jackson's third novel, develops hallmarks of the
horror master's most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting
familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind.
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The Lottery (Hardcover)
Shirley Jackson
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Step into the unsettling world of
Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short
stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising
best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece
and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth
century. 'An amazing writer ... If you haven't read her you have
missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman
"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories written in this
century, created a sensation when it was first published in "The"
"New Yorker." "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were
typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear
during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery: " with
twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack
son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly
horrible--and power as a storyteller.
The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender
chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future
direction of race, gender, and class studies from a
multidisciplinary perspective. The research in this subfield has
been wide-ranging, including works in sociology, gender studies,
anthropology, political science, social policy, history, and public
health. As a result, the interdisciplinary nature of race, gender,
and class and its ability to reach a large audience has been part
of its appeal. The Handbook provides clear and informative essays
by experts from a variety of disciplines, addressing the diverse
and broad-based impact of race, gender, and class studies. The
Handbook is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are
looking for a basic history, overview of key themes, and future
directions for the study of the intersection of race, class, and
gender. Scholars new to the area will also find the Handbook's
approach useful. The areas covered and the accompanying references
will provide readers with extensive opportunities to engage in
future research in the area.
The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender
chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future
direction of race, gender, and class studies from a
multidisciplinary perspective. The research in this subfield has
been wide-ranging, including works in sociology, gender studies,
anthropology, political science, social policy, history, and public
health. As a result, the interdisciplinary nature of race, gender,
and class and its ability to reach a large audience has been part
of its appeal. The Handbook provides clear and informative essays
by experts from a variety of disciplines, addressing the diverse
and broad-based impact of race, gender, and class studies. The
Handbook is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are
looking for a basic history, overview of key themes, and future
directions for the study of the intersection of race, class, and
gender. Scholars new to the area will also find the Handbook's
approach useful. The areas covered and the accompanying references
will provide readers with extensive opportunities to engage in
future research in the area.
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, "We Have
Always Lived in the Castle" is a deliciously unsettling novel about
a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the
struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This
edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
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Dark Tales (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson
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Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with
a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the
queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's something
nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily
commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving
wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just
be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley
Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city
streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to
the dark, dark woods... Includes the following stories: 'The
Possibility of Evil'; 'Louisa, Please Come Home'; 'Paranoia'; 'The
Honeymoon of Mrs Smith'; 'The Story We Used to Tell'; 'The
Sorcerer's Apprentice'; 'Jack the Ripper'; 'The Beautiful
Stranger'; 'All She Said Was Yes'; 'What a Thought'; 'The Bus';
'Family Treasures'; 'A Visit'; 'The Good Wife'; 'The Man in the
Woods'; 'Home'; 'The Summer People'.
'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever
written' Donna Tartt This is the definitive collection of Shirley
Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most
terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an
influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. In these
stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his
own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching
for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a
small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual.
The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of
lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted
potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.
Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and
terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When
her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker
in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has
since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her
first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same
year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The
Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the
Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her
sleep at the age of 48. 'An amazing writer ... if you haven't read
any of her short stories ... you have missed out on something
marvellous' Neil Gaiman 'Her stories are stunning, timeless - as
relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published ...
'The Lottery' is so much an icon in the history of the American
short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of
American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American
psyche, our collective unconscious' A. M. Homes
In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated
master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising
children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the
darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in
Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town
life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural
Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful
contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift
for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature
humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant
adventures.
' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like
this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie
beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling
miniature masterworks of unease. Penguin Modern: fifty new books
celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern
Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its
contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from
Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and
George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring;
poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking
us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground
scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Sundial (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson
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In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in
the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create
a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. 'An
amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Mrs Halloran has inherited the great
Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her
daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked granddaughter and the
confusion of the rest of the household. But when the original owner
- long dead - arrives to announce the world is ending and only the
house and its occupants will be saved, they find themselves in a
nightmare of strange marble statues, mysterious house guests and
the beautiful, unsettling Halloran sundial which seems to be at the
centre of it all. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power
to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in
California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first
published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they
sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest
American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the
Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more:
Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House
and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her
masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.
'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... It is
a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that
is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming,
of things taking a turn for the worse' A. M. Homes 'Shirley Jackson
is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written,
quiet, cumulative shudders' Dorothy Parker 'Shirley Jackson's
stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories
from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an
elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the
Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's
thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the
possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the
world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and
unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short
stories. 'Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the
depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a
gift to a new generation' - San Francisco Chronicle 'For Jackson
devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ... A
virtuoso collection' - Publishers Weekly
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror,
selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan
Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror
series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of
the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story
"Sardonicus," considered by Stephen King to be "perhaps the finest
example of the modern Gothic ever written," to Shirley Jackson's
The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol
Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover
art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy
deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of
horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. The
Haunting of Hill House The classic supernatural thriller by an
author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959,
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a
perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers
who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr.
Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a
"haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a
friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists;
and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems
destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable
phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will
choose one of them to make its own.
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Hangsaman (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson; Introduction by Francine Prose
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Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and
haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved
disappearance of a female college student. 'Shirley Jackson's
stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt,
author of The Goldfinch Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre
writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her
place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a
creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish
parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the
intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually
crumbles. This Penguin edition includes a Foreword by Francine
Prose. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle
and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916.
When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New
Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail;
it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all
time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in
the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's
Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always
Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley
Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48. 'An amazing writer'
Neil Gaiman 'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and
unforgettable ... It is a place where things are not what they
seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the
threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse'
A. M. Homes 'Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the
field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders' Dorothy
Parker
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Dark Tales (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Ottessa Moshfegh
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