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Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century.

'An amazing writer ... If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman

About the Author
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 Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

Reviews
An amazing writer ... if you haven't read any of her short stories ... you have missed out on something marvellous -- Neil Gaiman
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable -- A. M. Homes
Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers...whose work exerts an enduring spell -- Joyce Carol Oates



Book Information
ISBN 9780241590539
Author Shirley Jackson
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 248g
Dimensions(mm) 167mm * 120mm * 25mm