We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Book name:	We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2024)
Category:	Horror
Author:	Shirley Jackson
Pages:	146 pages
ISBN13:	0143039970
ISBN:	0143039970
Language:	English
Publication data:	Oct. 31, 2006, 8 a.m.

Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

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Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson… Read more