Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204)
The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / other stories and sketches
In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and much more
"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "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." In this Library of America volume Joyce Carol Oates, our leading practitioner of the contemporary Gothic, presents the essential works of Shirley Jackson, the novels and stories that, from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, wittily remade the genre of psychological horror for an alienated, postwar America. She opens with The Lottery…