Description
This collection of Shirley Jackson’s finest and darkest short stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her most mesmerising. There is something nasty in suburbia: the daily commute becomes a nightmarish game of hide-and-seek, a loving wife conceals homicidal thoughts, and a concerned citizen may be an infamous serial killer. In Jackson’s haunting world, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from city streets to a country manor, a small-town apartment and the dark woods. The collection includes “The Possibility of Evil,” “Louisa, Please Come Home,” “Paranoia,” “The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith,” “The Story We Used to Tell,” “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” “Jack the Ripper,” “The Beautiful Stranger,” “All She Said Was Yes,” “What a Thought,” “The Bus,” “Family Treasures,” “A Visit,” “The Good Wife,” “The Man in the Woods,” “Home,” and “The Summer People.”
Information
Author: Jackson Shirley
Language: English
Publication date: September 28, 2017
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Classic literature in english, Horrors in english, Fiction in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 195
ISBN/EAN: 9780241308493