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Shirley Jackson

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
Hangsaman
The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In)
Dark Tales
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Let Me Tell You
Raising Demons
Life Among the Savages
The Sundial
The Bird's Nest
The Haunting of Hill House
The Road Through the Wall
Hangsaman
Come Along with Me
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Just an Ordinary Day

Books

The Letters of Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman
The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In)
Dark Tales
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Let Me Tell You
Raising Demons
Life Among the Savages
The Sundial
The Bird's Nest
The Haunting of Hill House
The Road Through the Wall
Hangsaman
Come Along with Me
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Just an Ordinary Day

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