From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
Like a lot of people I read 'The Lottery' when I was young, in an
anthology of short stories from the New Yorker, and never forgot
it. Let Me Tell You is a rich, enjoyable compendium of Jackson's
unpublished short fiction and occasional writings, kicking off with
a story of a dozen pages, 'Paranoia', which I won't forget,
either
*TLS Books of the Year*
The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and
genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ...
For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were
ignited by 'The Lottery', Jackson remains one of the great
practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses
*New York Times*
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