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Books by Shirley Jackson
  | | The Haunting of Hill House(1st Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303998-3, ISBN: 0-14-303998-9 "Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult ..." |
 | | The Bird's Nest(Reprint) (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson, Kevin Wilson Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310703-3, ISBN: 0-14-310703-8 "Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalitiesElizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn that Eliz ..." |
 | | Hangsaman(Reprint) (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson, Francine Prose Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310704-0, ISBN: 0-14-310704-6 "Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearanceSeventeen-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 ..." |
 | | We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ott, Jonathan Lethem Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Classics Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303997-6, ISBN: 0-14-303997-0 "Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely profferi ..." |
 | | The Lottery and Other Stories(2nd Edition) (FSG Classics) by Shirley Jackson, A. M. Homes Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52953-6, ISBN: 0-374-52953-1 "One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane.The Lottery an ..." |
 | | The Witchcraft of Salem Village(Reprint) (Landmark Books) by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1987 by Random House Books For Young Readers Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-394-89176-7, ISBN: 0-394-89176-7 "Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true ..." |
 | | Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson, Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2017 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313200-4, ISBN: 0-14-313200-8 "For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her u ..." |
 | | The Haunting of Hill House(Reprint) A Novel by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313477-0, ISBN: 0-14-313477-9 "Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short st ..." |
 | | Life Among the Savages(Reprint) by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312804-5, ISBN: 0-14-312804-3 "Can this be the author of such chilling tales as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House? An ordinary housewife stuck in a big, shabby house with three marvelous, demanding children and a charming husband who takes detached interest in the chaos they generate? Yes, it's Shirley Jackson all right: the precision of her observations and prose is familiar, even if her humor is something of a surprise. Not until Anne Lamott's Operating In ..." |
 | | The Haunting of Hill House(1st Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-119144-7, ISBN: 0-14-119144-9 "The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear. 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch and The Secret History Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid e ..." |
 | | The Lottery (Creative Short Stories (Hardcover)) by Shirley Jackson Library, 32 Pages, Published 2008 by Creative Education ISBN-13: 978-1-58341-584-9, ISBN: 1-58341-584-X "Between the births of their next three children, Jackson published her first novel, Tlte Road through the Wall (1948), her ... Joanne, Sarah, and Barry; my books include three novels, The Road through the Wall, Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, and ..." |
 | | The Haunting by Shirley Jackson, Shirely Jackson Jackson Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028743-1, ISBN: 0-14-028743-4 "Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult ..." |
 | | The Haunting of Hill House(Reprint) by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1984 by Penguin Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-14-007108-5, ISBN: 0-14-007108-3 "Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult ..." |
 | | The Lottery(81st Edition) by Shirley Jackson, Brainerd Duffield Paperback, 26 Pages, Published 1983 by Dramatic Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-87129-264-3, ISBN: 0-87129-264-5 "JOE. Warner. . . . Howdy, Mr. Warner. [warner takes slip and returns to his place. ] WArNer. Got mine. Seventy-seventh year I been in the Lottery. joe. Watson. ... Hi, Myrtle. Mrs. watson [drawing]. Hi, Joe. joe. Wilkins. . . . miss bessom [as jack crosses to draw]. Don't be nervous, Jack. joe [kindly]. Take your time, son. jack [ drawing]. Thanks, Mr. Summers. joe [checking off list]. Now, that's all. [A breathless pause. joe draws ..." |
 | | Shirley Jackson Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #336): The Road Through the Wall / Hangsaman / The Bird's Nest / The Sundial (Library of America) by Shirley Jackson, Ruth Franklin Hardcover, 900 Pages, Published 2020 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-670-6, ISBN: 1-59853-670-2 "From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror.Shirley Jackson--the beloved author of The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle--is more and more being recognized as one of the finest writers of the American gothic tradition, a true heir of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. Now, Jackson's award-winning biographe ..." |
 | | We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Vitae) by Shirley Jackson Hardcover, Published 2020 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313483-1, ISBN: 0-14-313483-3 |
 | | The Haunting of Hill House(Tie-In Edition) Now the Inspiration for a New Netflix Original Series by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-241-38969-0, ISBN: 0-241-38969-0 "THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES DEBUTING THIS HALLOWE'ENThe best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear.'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch and The Secret HistoryFour seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as H ..." |
 | | The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In): A Novel by Shirley Jackson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313419-0, ISBN: 0-14-313419-1 "The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton, and a great holiday giftFirst 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 whoarrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, a ..." |
 | | Let Me Tell You(Reprint) New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Sarah Hyman Dewitt, Ruth Franklin Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2016 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-8732-4, ISBN: 0-8129-8732-2 "NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR From the renowned author of The Lottery and "The Haunting of Hill House, " a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features Family Treasures, nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the land ..." |
 | | Let Me Tell You New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson 448 Pages, Published 2015 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-9767-5, ISBN: 0-8129-9767-0 "New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings Shirley Jackson Laurence Hyman, Sarah Hyman DeWitt ... If he is very hungry and says cheerfully that the lamb chops look very small and that he could eat all four of them himself, his wife can only ..." |
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