- Fiction - General, Fiction, Fiction, horror, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.
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Grave, bleak, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Shirley Jackson
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Adelphi, Ace Books, Farrar, Straus
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780140083170
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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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