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Novels portal; The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson.It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films (The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, and its remake), a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
"Paranoia" is a short story by Shirley Jackson first published on August 5, 2013 in The New Yorker long after the author's death in 1965. Jackson's children found the story in her papers in the Library of Congress. [1] It has since been reprinted in Dark Tales (2016).
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus , it includes " The Lottery " and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work titled Just An Ordinary Day, which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had ...
Come Along with Me is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson.It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery".
Throughout the story she questions why she is continuing to imagine such thoughts, the story ultimately culminating with the wife striking her husband's head with an ashtray, while denying her desire to kill him immediately before, the last line being: ""I don't want to," she said as she struck him."