Also in 2016: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) and an authorized biography by Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Norton). Includes the following stories: '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' 'The Summer People'. A graphic novel adaptation of 'The Lottery' by Miles Hyman, her grandson, was published in 2016 (Farrar-Straus-Giroux). In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. It is a compilation of many short stories, each one related but unique, about the same area in upstate New York, the presumed site of her story, The Haunting of. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark.
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