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Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret, with an afterword by Jonathan Lethem.A Penguin Vitae EditionMerricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods-until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merri...

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 biographer Ruth ...

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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 story "Sa...

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Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail, it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the ...

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 and Othe...

Merricat lebt am Rande eines Dorfes im Schloss der Familie Blackwood, nur in Gesellschaft ihrer Schwester Constance und dem wunderlichen Onkel Julian, der an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist. Alle anderen Familienmitglieder wurden vergiftet. Merricat liebt die Ruhe im Schloss. Aber seit Constance vor Gericht freigesprochen wurde, den Rest der Familie ermordet zu haben, lässt die Welt den Blackwoods keinen Frieden mehr. Und als Cousin Charles auft...

Vier Menschen betreten die alte Villa, die als Hill House bekannt ist. Sie wollen die übernatürlichen Phänomene, die sich angeblich darin ereignen, untersuchen. Die vier werden etwas Böses erleben, das sich ihrer Kontrolle und ihrem Verstand entzieht. Sie können unmöglich wissen, dass sie von dem Haus selbst angelockt wurden und welche bösen Pläne es verfolgt ... Das Meisterwerk der 'Queen of Horror', der wichtigsten Autorin unheimlicher Lit...

«Quella giovane donna, anonima e ottusa, che ogni mattina si reca in ufficio per vidimare le lettere in arrivo al museo dove lavora, neanche ci pensa a entrare in contatto con la propria vita interiore. In compenso, avverte un persistente mal di schiena, continue emicranie e vertigini, oltre a soffrire d'insonnia: i primi sintomi di quel vero e proprio abisso mentale in cui sta per precipitare ... Shirley Jackson è abilissima a mettere in scen...

Un giorno, a metà degli anni Novanta, Laurence Jackson Hyman, il figlio maggiore di Shirley Jackson, apre la porta di casa e - sorpresa - si trova davanti una scatola di cartone senza traccia di mittente. Dentro, immediatamente riconoscibili dai fogli di carta gialla e dai caratteri della sua Roval, una messe di scritti inediti della madre, morta ormai da trent'anni. Da quell'imprevista cornucopia, e dalle successive ricerche nel suo Fondo pre...

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The greatest haunted house story ever written and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton.First 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, an occultscholar looking for s...

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