We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The final novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
Most of the Blackwoods are dead. They were poisoned by arsenic, and the suspected murderer – Constance Blackwood – still lives in their family estate. In fact, she never leaves. Nor does her Uncle Julian, who is confined to a wheelchair. The only person to leave the house is her sister, the third remaining Blackwood, Merricat, and even she keeps her visits to town to a minimum. The townsfolk don’t like the Blackwoods; understandable, when one of them could be a mass murderer.
Constance, Merricat, and Julian maintain a semblance of a normal, if highly reclusive, life, aided – if Merricat is to be believed – by…
Shirley 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