Shirley Jackson Best Short Stories - April 2024

Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." In this Library of America volume Joyce Carol Oates, our leading practitioner of the contemporary Gothic, presents the essential works of Shirley Jacks... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530720
• ASIN: 1598530720
• ISBN: 1598530720
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)

• ASIN: B0056IAXW6
• ASIN: B0056IAXW6
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Lottery (Tale Blazers)

A cautionary short story about the dangers of unexamined traditions and the dark side of human nature.

• ASIN: 1563127873
• ASIN: 1563127873
• ISBN: 1563127873
• Brand: Jackson, Shirley
• Manufacturer: Perfection Learning

The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Horror)

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The H... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143122355
• ASIN: 0143122355
• ISBN: 0143122355
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Dark Tales

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 quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People.” In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute tur... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N7XBS69
• ASIN: B01N7XBS69
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges — imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Man... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486447162
• UPC: 800759447169
• ASIN: 0486447162
• ISBN: 0486447162
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Shirley Jackson (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)

-- User's guide -- Biography of the short story writer -- List of characters in each story -- Detailed thematic analysis of each short story -- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each work -- A complete bibliography of the writer's works -- A list of critical works about the short stories covered in the book -- An index of themes and ideas in the author's work

• ASIN: 0791059480
• ASIN: 0791059480
• ISBN: 0791059480
• Brand: Brand: Chelsea House Pub (L)
• Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications

Best American Short Stories 1989

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• ASIN: 0395470978
• ASIN: 0395470978
• ISBN: 0395470978
• Brand: Brand: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Manufacturer: Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Life Among the Savages

In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family’s life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist’s gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, J... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143128043
• ASIN: 0143128043
• ISBN: 0143128043
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

• ASIN: B004SS1MH0
• ASIN: B004SS1MH0
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalitiesElizabeth 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, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl—but four separate, self-destructive personalities. The Bird’s Nest, Jackson’s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143107038
• ASIN: 0143107038
• ISBN: 0143107038
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Come Along with Me

• ASIN: 0140250379
• ASIN: 0140250379
• ISBN: 0140250379
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Hangsaman (Penguin Classics)

Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearanceSeventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn’t bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything—even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin. Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143107046
• ASIN: 0143107046
• ISBN: 0143107046
• Brand: Brand: Penguin Classics
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

21 Essential American Short Stories

A vibrant journey through the annals of classic American short stories21 Essential American Short Stories is a collection of beloved stories that have comprised an important part of the fabric of our culture, from the earliest days of our nation to the twentieth century. Some of the stories, such as Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” have been long regarded as literary classics,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312648030
• ASIN: 0312648030
• ISBN: 9780312648039
• Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

The Best American Series: 16 Short Stories & Essays

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.  This special edition contains selections from the following 2016 editions:The Best American Essays edited by Jonathan FranzenThe Best American Mystery Stories edited by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Amy StewartThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Karen Joy FowlerThe Best American Short Stories edited by Junot DiazThe Best American Travel Writing edited by Bill BrysonThe Best American Sports Writing edited by Rick Telander... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N8SL665
• ASIN: B01N8SL665
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Lottery and Other Stories

Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Company:

• UPC: 3319503
• Rating: 3.96

Let Me Tell You : New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

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,

• UPC: 50091857
• Rating: 4.333

Come Along with Me : Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel

Presents a collection of sixteen short stories by the well-known author, including her most famous story, "The

• UPC: 21053798
• Rating: 4.0

The Lottery and Other Stories

9781483033341

• UPC: 37498815
• Rating: 3.96

Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me : The Best of Teffi

Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star,

• UPC: 49118691

Just an Ordinary Day - eBook

Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with

• UPC: 273186705
• Rating: 4.333

Let Me Tell You : New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

A new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters, and other writings by the renowned author of "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House" includes pieces reflecting on the literary process and

• UPC: 43378944
• Rating: 4.333

Best American Short Stories 1943 & 1944 - Nabokov, Shirley Jackson, Cheever +

• UPC: 254140596357
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 19 USD