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A Visit - A Ghost Story for Christmas by Shirley Jackson; Seth (Illustrator)
Category: Horror | Series: Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories Ser.
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 with a mysterious friend, strange occurrences cause tensions to rise within the group, and secrets hidden wit ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Category: Fiction
"There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
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
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
Category: Fiction
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and in ...Show more
Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
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
Let Me Tell YouNew Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson
Category: Classics
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * From the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features "Family Treasures," nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Short St ...Show more
Letters and Sounds Activity by Shirley Jackson
Category: Children's
This fun activity book focuses on the five vowel sounds, helping to develop the vital learning skills of linking sounds to printed words, words to pictures and pictures to objects in the world around us. Children learn how to sound out the short and long vowel sounds using the clear words and pictures. ...Show more
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Category: Biography | 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