Shirley Jackson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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...
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English
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It's been six years since four members of the Blackwood family died under suspicious circumstances. The remaining Blackwoods, elder sister Constance, wheel-chair bound Uncle Julian and 18 year old Mary Katerine live together in peaceful isolation, until a cousin, Charles sets his sights on the family fortune.
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English
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"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this ... compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written by the author of "The Lottery"
Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery". At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the...
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Series
Library of America volume 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the...
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A graphic adaptation of the classic short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson"--
"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, it raises troubling questions about conformity, tradition, and the specter of ritualized violence that haunts even the most bucolic, peaceful village. This graphic...
13) The haunting
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A professor lures three subjects to a mysterious mansion for an experiment which turns into a nightmare as the secrets of Hill House are revealed in this supernatural thriller.