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Books : Literature & Fiction : Genre Fiction : Horror : Authors, A-Z : ( J ) : Jackson, Shirley
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A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.
Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected.
The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer.
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If you were thrilled by Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" but aren't familiar with her other stories, don't miss the chance to pick up this important collection edited by the author's husband. In addition to "The Lottery," it includes classics like "The Beautiful Stranger" (body snatcher theme with a twist), "The Summer People" (a tale of sinister villagers), "A Visit" (a lyrical ghost story), "The Rock" (where death is a short, shy gentleman), and "The Bus" (Jackson's most overtly ghoulish and frightening story of all). The unfinished novel Come Along with Me is mesmerizing, and Jackson's "Biography of a Story" is an utterly hilarious account of readers' reactions when "The Lottery" was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. As the New York Times said, "Everything this author ... has in it the dignity and plausibility of myth ... Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things."
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Throughout history, witches have always enthralled us. Be they good witches or bad witches, ancient sorcerers or modern-day Wiccans, their aura of magic, nature, and power is irresistible. Here, some of the greatest authors of all time are gathered together to stir up a little trouble. These works of prose and poetry capture the witch in all her guises: wicked, empowering, romantic, and pagan.
Featuring: Erica Jong € Dean Koontz € Louise Erdrich € William Shakespeare € Ursula K. Le Guin € Harlan Ellison € Sir Arthur Conan Doyle € Shirley Jackson € W.B. Yeats € Brothers Grimm € Ben Franklin € Emily Brontë € Louisa May Alcott € Ray Bradbury € Anton Chekhov € Emily Dickinson € H.P. Lovecraft € Nathaniel Hawthorne € Ambrose Bierce € H.P. Blavatsky € Mary Coleridge € Rosemary Edgehill € P.N. Elrod € Anita Endrezze € Mary Wilkins Freeman € David Gerrold € M.V. Ingram € Mercedes Lackey € Cotton Mather € Charles Perrault € Kathryn Ptacek € Doreen Valiente € Evelyn Vaughn € Lady Wilde
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Thirty-six classic stories selected by the editor of The Essential Dracula and The Essential Frankenstein are all distinguished by their chilling depictions of the macabre, grotesque, bizarre, and terrifying, including stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, and Saki.
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GHOSTS AND THINGS is a spine chilling anthology of the most terrifying ghost stories ever written. Here are stories of the dead who will not lie still, the spirits of those that will walk the earth until their quest is fulfilled...The authors of GHOSTS AND THINGS include such world-famed masters of the ghost story as Henry James, E.F. Benson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Middleton, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Saki, Oliver Onions, Andre Maurois, and Shirley Jackson.
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Brand new! LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold!
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