'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories,including'The Lottery'- one of the most terrifying and iconic storiesof thetwentieth century,and an influence on writers such as NeilGaiman and Stephen King.Inthese stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by hisown guests; awoman spends her wedding day frantically searching forherhusband-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 lostischillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have thepower to unsettle and terrify unlikeany other. She was born inCalifornia 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'Herstories are stunning,timeless - as relevant and terrifying now aswhenthey were first published ...'The Lottery'is so much an icon inthehistory of the American short story that one could argue it hasmovedfrom the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly intotheAmerican psyche,our collective unconscious'A. M. Homes
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141191430Number of pages: 320Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
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Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever writtenAn amazing writer...If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle or The Haunting of Hill House or any of her short stories you have missed out on something marvellousHer 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 unconsciousOne of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American writers
Shirley Jackson
One of the foremost authors of twentieth-century supernatural fiction,Shirley Jackson is best known for the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle,and the short story The Lottery.
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