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URSULA K. LE GUIN

Shirley Jackson

PEARL S. BUCK

O'Henry

Paul Annixter

Isaac. Asimov

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Saki (H.H.Munro)

Teen & Young Adult

PRENTICE/HALL

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959 under the title The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson's beloved novel 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 the psychic phenomena called "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. “Makes your blood chill and your scalp prickle. . . . Shirley Jackson is the master of the haunted tale.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Haunting

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins

Including her iconic tale The Lottery, The Tooth brings together a short selection of Shirley Jackson's most sinister stories. "Her stories are among the most terrifying ever written". (Donna Tartt). 'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle...' The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle.  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 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).

The Tooth

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin books, limited

The Sundial

Literary

The Situation Of The Story

JOYCE CAROL OATES

Henry, James

DORIS LESSING

Katherine Anne Porter

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Zora Neale Hurston

Sarah Orne Jewett

RAYMOND CARVER

Estela Portillo Trambley

JOHN UPDIKE

Louise Erdrich

JOHN CHEEVER

EUDORA WELTY

BERNARD MALAMUD

Bharati, Mukherjee

Anna Lee Walters

John Edgar Wideman

Diana Young

George P. Garrett

Ann Beattie

Toni Cade Bambara

Willa, Cather

Lee K. Abbott

Conrad, Aiken

Charles, Johnson

GLORIA NAYLOR

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Anton Pavloviç Çehov

Franz, Kafka

David Herbert, Lawrence

James, Joyce

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Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Amy, Tan

Mark, Twain

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HERMAN, MELVILLE

Stephen, Crane

Elizabeth Spencer

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William Goyen

TRUMAN CAPOTE

William, Faulkner

Ernest, Hemingway

Ellen Wilbur

REGINALD McKNlGHT

Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin

Allen Barnett

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
 Apparently, most of the family was murdered at supper one day via the introduction of arsenic into their food. Only three family members survive, sisters Constance and Mary Catherine Blackwood, and their elderly Uncle Julian. Constance, who always cooked for her family, was charged with their murder but acquitted at trial. The surviving three Blackwoods now live in splendid isolation in their mansion, as they are reviled by the villagers.
 They are truly alone, except for the rare visitors who knew their family prior to the tragedy that took place. Even these few visits are almost too much for them. Still, Constance does her best to entertain them, although Merricat clearly wishes they would not come. Their highly structured world, however, is slowly torn apart, when Charles, a cousin, comes to visit them.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Pop LIbrary 01509)

Genre Fiction

Open these pages and be drawn into the mind and the heart of a woman caught in the horrendous torments of her own conflicting emotions.By the age of 23, Elizabeth Richmond had developed separate and warring personalities when confronted by harsh realities she could not face: her mother's strange death, and a nightmarish interlude with her mother's lover. She turned from a quiet small city museum curator to a wild, uninhibited girl whose actions threatened to disgrace her family.Originally published as *The Bird's Nest*. LIZZIE was the name of the movie, starring Eleanor Parker as the conflicted protagonist.

Lizzie (The Bird's Nest)

New American Library

Dark Descent: A Fabulous Formless Darkness v. 3 (The Dark Descent Series)

Oliver Onions

GENE WOLFE

Fritz LEIBER

Thomas M. Disch

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

Ambrose, Bierce

Algernon, Blackwood

Robert Aickman

Philip, K. Dick

WALTER

De La Mare

GRAFTON

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