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.
Shirley Jackson 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 most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by 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. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever
written
*Donna Tartt*
An 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 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*
One of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American
writers
*Jonathan Lethem*
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