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Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson

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Penguin Classics
27 November 2017
Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories

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 seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   158g
ISBN:   9780241308493
ISBN 10:   0241308496
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

Reviews for Dark Tales

An excellent primer for her short fiction * The Pool * Dark Tales reveals a superior gothic writer ... Shirley Jackson's menacing gothic tales are a joy to rediscover * The Times * An amazing writer -- Neil Gaiman One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses -- Paul Theroux The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable -- A. M. Homes Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written ... No-one can touch her -- Donna Tartt


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