Let Me Tell You
Back Cover Text:"An uncanny dollhouse: Everything perfectly rendered, but something deliciously not quite right." - NPR
ACCLAIM FOR SHIRLEY JACKSON
"[Shirley Jackson's] work exerts an enduring spell." - JOYCE CAROL OATES
"Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written." - DONNA TARTT
"An amazing writer... If you haven't read [her] you have missed out on something marvelous." - NEIL GAIMAN
"An author who not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of." - FRANCINE PROSE
"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable." - A. M. HOMES
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Let Me Tell You
"Throughout these previously unpublished pieces, whether short stories about Main Street murders or Jackson's description ofher own eerie writing process (sleepwalking and ghosts helped), the author's mordant wit and nuanced prose are often shiver-inducing." - New York
"[Shirley] Jackson, an inspiration to writers from Stephen King to Joyce Carol Oates, dared to look on the dark side and imagine the unimaginable... A multifaceted portrait of the artist as wife, mother, commentator on the comfortable middle class, and pioneer who explored a world of inexplicable, occasionally frightening phenomena." - Publishers Weekly
"It doesn't get much better than this." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)