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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"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
$22.99 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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 Jackson, Shirley (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the uproarious sequel to "Life Among the Savages," the author of "The Haunting of Hill House "confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to "Life Among the Savages," Jackson's four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the se ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$29.99 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
$22.99 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 Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) by Jackson Shirley
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting'; Theodora ...Show more