The perfect read for Hallowe''en, this new hardback volume of Jackson''s finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best.
There''s something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...
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Estudió en la Universidad de Syracuse. En 1948 aparecieron su primera novela, The Road Through the Wall, y el cuento «La lotería», ya convertido en un clásico. En 1962 publicó Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, considerada por la revista Time como una de las diez mejores novelas de ese año.