Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) wrote several books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
"The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."
--James Hilton, Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley
Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice,
kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and
literary currents . . . . She was unique." --Newsweek "Shirley
Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully
written, quiet, cumulative shudders."
--Dorothy Parker, Esquire "I implore you not to read this story
unless you can take a day or a week afterward to think about it. A
great story, like a great vintage, throws a crust of sediment which
may destroy- the bouquet and cause ulcers later. If you don't feel
the tweak of the ulcers, you haven't really read this story.
--Christopher Morley, author of The Haunted Bookshop "Perhaps more
than anything else, the horror story or horror movie says it's okay
to join the mob, to become the total tribal being, to destroy the
outsider. It has never been done better or more literally than in
Shirley Jackson's short story 'The Lottery.' "
--Stephen King, Danse Macabre "One of [the twentieth] century's
most luminous and strange American writers . . . Shirley Jackson
wrote about the mundane evils hidden in everyday life and about the
warring and subsuming of selves in a family, a community, and
sometimes even in a single mind."
--Jonathan Lethem, Salon "Everything this author wrote . . . had in
it the dignity and plausibility of myth . . . Shirley Jackson knew
better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted
things."
--Guy Davenport, The New York Times Book Review
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