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Quando Shirley Jackson arrivò in ospedale per la nascita del terzo figlio, l'impiegata all'accettazione le chiese quale professione svolgesse. E alla risposta «Scrittrice», replicò imperturbabile: «Io metterei casalinga». Senza volerlo, quell'impiegata aveva toccato un nervo scoperto - e colto nel segno. L'autrice di uno dei più celebri e disturbanti racconti della letteratura americana moderna e...

"A Shirley Jackson, che non ha mai avuto bisogno di alzare la voce"; con questa dedica si apre "L'incendiaria" di Stephen King. È infatti con toni sommessi e deliziosamente sardonici che la diciottenne Mary Katherine ci racconta della grande casa avita dove vive reclusa, in uno stato di idilliaca felicità, con la bellissima sorella Constance e uno zio invalido. Non ci sarebbe nulla di strano nella loro passione per i minuti ri...

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father's fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will...

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Die Vorstadt hat etwas Böses an sich, die liebende Ehefrau verbirgt mörderische Gedanken und der besorgte Bürger könnte ein berüchtigter Serienmörder sein ... Tauchen Sie ein in die beunruhigende Welt von Shirley Jackson, mit dieser Sammlung ihrer düstersten Kurzgeschichten. In der gespenstischen Welt von Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) ist nichts so, wie es scheint, und nirgendwo ist man sicher.Sie ist mehr als nur die »Queen of Horror« - sondern...

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Six years after four members of the Blackwood family died of arsenic poisoning, the three survivors-elder, agoraphobic sister Constance, wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian, and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or Merricat-live in peaceful solitude. Merricat has devised an eccentric set of laws and defensive charms to keep the estate safe from intruding villagers. However, a stranger appears one day-cousin Charles, who is after the Blackwood fortune-and ...

A trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, "the master of the haunted tale" (The New York Times Book Review).One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, this lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery-and the monstrous desires it awakens-endures as an esse...

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This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery', one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century.

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Neben ihrem Talent für das Schaurige war die große amerikanische Autorin Shirley Jackson bekannt für die absurd-komische Betrachtung ihres Lebens als Ehefrau und Mutter von vier Kindern in einem baufälligen Herrenhaus in Vermont. In >Krawall und Kekse<, das erstmals 1953 erschien, hadert sie mit liegenbleibenden Autos, Haushaltshilfen, die nicht wiederkommen, und einem selbstvergessenen Ehemann, der mit seinen Nachkommen erst etwas zu tun habe...

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill HouseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • "This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson's legacy."-Joyce Carol OatesShirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the las...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully ...

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This bewitching collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House brilliantly draws out flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad.Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraor...

Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy' Amy Bloom'Our new house was waiting for us, eager, expectant, and empty'Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Amo...