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Shirley Jackson

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

December 14, 1916

Died

August 08, 1965

Genre

Horror, Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories

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Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul ...more

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	The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 390,061 ratings — published 1959 — 471 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Have Always Lived in the Castle 3.91 avg rating — 292,002 ratings — published 1962 — 219 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lottery 4.04 avg rating — 108,687 ratings — published 1948 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, A.M. Homes (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 84,260 ratings — published 1949 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hangsaman 3.76 avg rating — 11,905 ratings — published 1951 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Tales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,762 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Among the Savages 3.97 avg rating — 9,306 ratings — published 1953 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sundial 3.80 avg rating — 7,978 ratings — published 1958 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird's Nest 3.72 avg rating — 7,892 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witchcraft of Salem Village 3.80 avg rating — 4,813 ratings — published 1956 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Three women are bewitched across time and space in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s latest Gothic ghost story, The Bewitching. Minerva is a foreign...

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What is the greatest literary ghost novel?

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

25 votes, 29.1%

The Shining by Stephen King

10 votes, 11.6%

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

8 votes, 9.3%

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielweski (write-in)

8 votes, 9.3%

The Turn of the Screw

8 votes, 9.3%

Wuthering Heights (write-in)

5 votes, 5.8%

Hell House by Richard Matheson

4 votes, 4.7%

The Shining by Stephen King (write-in)

4 votes, 4.7%

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

3 votes, 3.5%

I've only read three of these. I'd choose The Shining (write-in)

3 votes, 3.5%

The Shining. It's not just a haunted house. (write-in)

2 votes, 2.3%

Haunting of Hill House (write-in)

2 votes, 2.3%

The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz (write-in)

2 votes, 2.3%

Sadly the only one I've read in Hell House. (write-in)

1 vote, 1.2%

Beloved by Toni Morrison

1 vote, 1.2%

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