Shirley Jackson

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House - classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe - Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty....

In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the seams of their first house, Jackson’s clan moves into a larger home. Of course, the chaos simply moves with them....

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted....

Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy, and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there....

This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with 24 equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate her remarkable range....

It's just townspeople picking numbers for the annual lottery...why, then, is there an ominous feeling to "The Lottery"? Find out what this lottery is for, and listen to seven other stories....

In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America....

Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance....

The Bird’s Nest, Shirley Jackson’s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind....

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial....

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....

Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village....

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation....

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction....

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix....

Su invito del professor Montague, intenzionato ad indagare e catalogare i fenomeni dentro la sinistra Hill House, tre giovani, scelti non a caso, si ritrovano a coesistere per una settimana nell'oscura dimora. Eleanor, giovane infelice, quando era molto piccola, è stata protagonista di...

Originalmente publicado em 1954 e lançado pela primeira vez em língua portuguesa nesta edição, O ninho do pássaro é um romance menos conhecido de Shirley Jackson, mas não menos impactante.

Ces 13 nouvelles glaçantes de Shirley Jackson feraient pâlir d’angoisse Hitchcock lui-même. Sous un cuir souple et de qualité se cache le sang à peine...