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This collection explores the ways domesticity weaves through, interferes with, and influences Shirley Jackson’s writing –
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson’s Possibility of Evil, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Miles Hyman
The classic short story–now in full color
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing…
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Shirley Jackson
Author Shirley Jackson has thrilled fans of horror and intrigue for decades with her superbly crafted stories and has even inspired such authors as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. This…
The four visitors at Hill House– some there for knowledge, others for adventure– are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
Describes the social and religious conditions surrounding the Salem witch hunts, the extensive trials and executions, and the aftermath of the hysteria.
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature…
A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies, providing clear and informative essays by…
A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson’s One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
Shirley Jackson Case
The Historicity of Jesus is a book written by Shirley Jackson Case in 1912. The book discusses the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ and his life as…
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Case Shirley Jackson
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Using the scientific method, Shirley Jackson Case examines the development of Christianity during its early years in the context of the religious and social forces that influenced its growth. This…
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.
Margaret visits the lavish home of her friend Carla Rhodes for the summer holidays. But when Carla's brother arrives…
Supernaturalism runs like a scarlet thread through the whole Christians’ Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Many a Christian today passes hastily over the miracle stories in the Scriptures and dwells…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed…
From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror.
Shirley Jackson–the beloved author of The…
First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, Inc., in 1968; published in Penguin Books 1995; this edition with a new foreword published 2013 –T.p. verso.
In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, the feelings of the inhabitants are shallow and selfish: What can a neighbour gain from another neighbour…
Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1959; Edition with an introduction by Laura Miller published 2006 –Title page verso.
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh
After the publication of her short story…
First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1962. Published in a Viking Compass edition 1970. Published in Penguin Books 1976. Previously published with an afterword…
First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Young 1957 –Title page verso.
Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness…
Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked granddaughter and the confusion…
Shirley Hardie Jackson
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.
Shirley Lankford Jackson
Jesus Died For You!
And Me!
Don’t Let The Cross
Be In
Vain.
May God’s Grace, Mercy,
And PeaceBe Unto You.
Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, The Lottery created a sensation when it was first published in The…
Shirley Jackson (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
Four seekers have come to the abandoned old mansion: an occult scholar, his lovely assistant, a homeless girl, and the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems…