The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson
"Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written...her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighbourhood faces . . . And the more quietly she speaks, the more terrifying she is, and the closer we lean in to listen" - Donna Tartt
Shirley Jackson has been praised by everyone from Dorothy Parker to Stephen King. Born and raised in California, she died relatively young, but not before leaving a body of writing that confirms her as one of the absolute masters of twentieth-century fiction.
This new edition brings together her three best works: The Haunting of Hill House, which was filmed as The Haunting with Claire Bloom, and of which Stephen King said "The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw are the only great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years"; We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a beautiful and surreal novel that, in the words of Time, "manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner, and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the real world outside"; and The Lottery, the collection of stories that made her name.
"Unquestionably among the great masters." - Daily Telegraph