Come Along With Me
Back Cover Text:"The very best of Shirley Jackson...bewitching...bizarre...earthy" - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
By the author of The Haunting of Hill House
FICTION AND ESSAYS - INCLUDING HER LAST UNFINISHED NOVEL - BY ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS
One of the most revered of American short story writers and novelists, Shirley Jackson is best known for the 1948 classic short story "The Lottery." Her gothic visions of small-town America employ quick, unexpected twists that turn an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. But horror was only one arena of her talent, and this eclectic collection of fiction and essars reveals the full spectrum of the literary genius she exercised over three decades. It contains the unfinished novel Come Along with Me, on which Jackson was at work at the time of her death in 1965. The story, which narrates the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, stands on its own as one of her most accomplished and psychologically probing works. This volume also includes sixteen short stories, including "The Lottery", and three lectures Jackson delivered at colleges and writers' conferences in her last years.
"Everything this author wrote...has in it the dignity and plausibility of myth...Shirley Jackson keww better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things." - The New York Times Book Review