Experience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work.This collection consists of three complete books:The Bird's NestLife Among the SavagesRaising Demonsand eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery."

Luke Sanderson, inheritor of the mysterious Hill House, invites a supernatural investigator and several guests interested in the paranormal to his eighty-year-old mansion in the hopes that they can experience and record supernatural events. As time passes, the group experiences increasingly terrifying and unexplainable disturbances, and one guest—Eleanor Vance—seems to be a particular target of the strange occurrences.The Haunting of Hill House is one of the most famous gh...

Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. Contents: The Road Through the Wall Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle The Lottery and Other Stories

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix 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 isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father’s fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will do whatever is necess...

Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to Hill House.What happens cannot, in fairness, be told. But Dr Montague’s words were prophetic: ‘A ghost cannot hurt anyone; only the fear of gh...

"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King “Shirley Jackson proves again that she is the finest master currently practicing in the genre of the cryptic, haunted tale.” —Edmund Fuller, The New York Times First published in 1959, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is Shirley Jackson’s masterful and unsettling exploration of psychological terror. The novel follows Eleanor Vance, a quiet and lonely woman who joins a small group at the infamous H...

Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood and her elder sister Constance live alone in their ancestral home with their crippled uncle after the tragic murder of both of their parents, their aunt, and their younger brother. Having been accused and later acquitted of the murders, Constance confines herself to the grounds of their home, while Merricat contends with their hostile neighbors and with the ever-increasing sense of impending danger she feels is heading their way.In We Have Al...

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.For more than seventy years, Penguin has b...

The American writer Shirley Jackson is known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. She attracted significant public attention for the controversial short story ‘The Lottery’, presenting the sinister underside of a bucolic American village. Her 1959 horror masterpiece ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is widely considered one of the best ghost stories ever written. In spite of her untimely death at the age of 48, her works continue to draw critical acclaim and revaluation, havin...

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 YearsFirst 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 seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for s...

Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" is a masterful exploration of psychological terror and the supernatural, intricately woven into a narrative that blurs the lines between reality and delusion. The novel centers around four characters'—Dr. John Montague, Eleanor Vance, Theodora, and Luke Sanderson'—who are drawn to the mysterious Hill House to investigate its purported hauntings. Jackson's prose is imbued with a haunting lyrical quality, enveloping readers in the oppressive atm...

In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising childrenIn 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 domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly ...