Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn’t bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything—even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin. Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore in 1946.
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October 19, 2021Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Sundial; two bestselling family chronicles, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons; and hundreds of short stories, many published in five separate posthumous collections. She died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight.
The Letters of Shirley Jackson
Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman
Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson; Afterword by Jonathan Lethem
Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In)
Shirley Jackson
Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson; Foreword by Ottessa Moshfegh
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson; Introduction by Laura Miller
Let Me Tell You
Shirley Jackson
The Road Through the Wall
Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman
Shirley Jackson
The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson
The Sundial
Shirley Jackson