- Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, gothic, Fiction, horror, Horror 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.
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Classical in form, bleak, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Classics, PENGUIN GROUP
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143132004
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Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. **Source**: [Shirley Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson) on Wikipedia.
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