Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere. Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining...

Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for...

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 unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley...

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...

A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written by the author of "The Lottery". Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules...

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...

La diciottenne Mary Katherine ci racconta della grande casa dove vive reclusa con la bella sorella Constance e lo zio invalido...

Pura e semplice descrizione della lotteria che si svolge nell'atmosfera pastorale, quasi idilliaca, di un villaggio del New England...

Su invito del professor Montague, intenzionato ad indagare e catalogare i fenomeni dentro la sinistra Hill House, tre giovani, scelti non a caso, si ritrovano a coesistere per una settimana nell'oscura dimora. Eleanor, giovane infelice, quando era molto piccola, è stata protagonista di...

Publicado originalmente em 1951, este segundo romance de Shirley Jackson é um thriller psicológico macabro que retrata como poucos o medo da solidão e da própria consciência. Natalie Waite tem dezessete anos e só pensa em sair logo da casa dos pais e entrar na universidade; ela sonha em...

Com uma habilidade ímpar, Shirley Jackson vai do hilário ao horripilante para demonstrar seu poder de contar histórias. Única coletânea publicada enquanto Shirley Jackson ainda era viva, A loteria e outros contos traz histórias que incorporam tanto as características marcantes da...

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation....

Dans la lugubre maison Hill House, que l'on dit hantée, le Dr Montagu réunit quatre personnes aussi mystérieuses que mal accordées afin d'étudier les phénomènes surnaturels et leurs conséquences sur chacun d'eux.

Com um humor macabro, Sempre vivemos no castelo conta a história deliciosamente sombria da família Blackwood. Merricat Blackwood vive com a irmã Constance e o tio Julian. Há algum tempo existiam sete membros na família Blackwood, até que uma dose fatal de arsênico colocada no pote de...

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix....

Ces 13 nouvelles glaçantes de Shirley Jackson feraient pâlir d’angoisse Hitchcock lui-même. Sous un cuir souple et de qualité se cache le sang à peine...

Considerada a rainha do terror por mestres como Stephen King e Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson cria uma obra perturbadora sobre a relação entre a loucura e o sobrenatural. A assombração da Casa da Colina é considerada a melhor história de casa assombrada de todos os tempos e inspirou a série...

In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting...

“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 Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar Award for...