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' " 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. Pe
The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! 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 seek
'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
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like 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 mo
'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 sis
The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, w
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 inher
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' D
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,
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the m
'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy'
Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered i
The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks li
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 smal
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 Ja
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,
Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein o
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isol
Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities 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. W
A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audi
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
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an
A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jacksons chilling tale of power and fear Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and El
A deluxe edition of the greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hil
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers com
Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, a trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, "the master of the haunted tale" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Featuring an introduction by A. M. Homes. One of the darkest, most ni
Lige siden giftmordet, der tog livet af næsten hele familien Blackwood, har de lokale set skævt til huset bag det høje hegn. Merricat Blackwood bor der stadig med sin søster Constance og deres gamle onkel, og livet går roligt videre for dem alle tre. Cons
Hun drejede bilen ind på det sidste stykke af indkørslen og befandt sig pludselig ansigt til ansigt med Hill House, og uden at tænke trampede hun bremsen i bund og stirrede måbende frem for sig. Huset var afskyeligt. Hun skælvede, og i hendes sind opstod
Vier Menschen betreten die alte Villa, die als Hill House bekannt ist. Sie wollen die übernatürlichen Phänomene, die sich angeblich darin ereignen, untersuchen. Die vier werden etwas Böses erleben, das sich ihrer Kontrolle und ihrem Verstand entzieht. Sie
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is th
"Fuglereden" er Shirley Jacksons foruroligende og bizarre roman om en ung kvindes spaltede indre liv og stridende stemmer. Elizabeth Richmond lever et stilfærdigt og ubemærket liv hos sin excentriske tante Morgen. En dag ændres hendes monotone l
»Tanken om at smadre det tunge askebæger ned i hans hoved var aldrig tidligere faldet Margaret ind, men nu kunne hun ikke komme af med den. Hun flyttede uroligt på sig i stolen og tænkte: Sikke en forfærdelig tanke at få, hvad i alverden fik mig dog til a
»I rollen som mor tager jeg nu og da mig selv i at sidde måbende og rædselsslagen over for mine egne børn.« Shirley Jackson er bredt anerkendt for sin underspillede horror og uhyggelige sans for menneskesindets skyggesider, og klassikerne Lotteriet og Mør
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret, with an afterword by Jonathan Lethem. A Penguin Vitae Edition Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her unc
In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House , The Lottery , and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,&quo
From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle , four classic novels of subtle psychological horror. Shirley Jackson--the beloved author of The Lottery , The Haunting of Hill House , and We Have Always Lived in the Ca
For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition boxed set, here is the ultimate Shirley Jackson edition, including all six novels, the famous story collection The Lottery , and twenty-one other stories. Collects Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories (L