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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"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 "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectua ...Show more
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring l ...Show more
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chroni ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, ...Show more
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson; Laurence Jackson Hyman (Editor); Bernice M. Murphy (Contribution by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House"This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson's legacy."--Joyce ...Show more
The Lottery (Little Clothbound Classics) by Shirley Jackson Jonathan Tulloch
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short ...Show more
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written" ...Show more