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The Shirley Jackson Collection (boxed set)

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Ruth Franklin

For the first time in a deluxe collector’s edition boxed set, here is the ultimate Shirley Jackson edition, including all six novels, the famous story collection The Lottery, and twenty-one other stories.

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Overview

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August 10, 2022

News Ruth Franklin: A decade of Shirley Jackson
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“The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,” writes A. M. Homes. “It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse.” Jackson’s characters—mostly unloved daughters in search of a home, a career, a family of their own—chase what appears to be a harmless dream until, without warning, it turns on its heel to seize them by the throat. We are moved by these characters’ dreams, for they are the dreams of love and acceptance shared by us all. We are shocked when their dreams become nightmares, and terrified by Jackson’s suggestion that there are unseen powers—“demons” both subconscious and supernatural—malevolently conspiring against human happiness.

In such works as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson took the American gothic tradition of Poe, Hawthorne, and Lovecraft and brought it down to earth, revealing that broad daylight held more subtle but no less chilling horrors. She was a master, as Dorothy Parker put it, of “beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders,” exploring the uncanny recesses concealed within the prosperous, conformist world of the postwar 1940s and 50s—and within our own unacknowledged selves.

Included in this boxed set are all six of her volume and dozens of her unforgettable stories, including The Lottery (1949), Jackson’s only collection of short fiction, as well as 21 other stories either uncollected or unpublished during her lifetime.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.
News & Views

Influences “Funny, Scary, and Delightfully Weird”: Lena Valencia on the Many Faces of Literary Terror
August 12, 2024

Video Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
August 10, 2022

News Ruth Franklin: A decade of Shirley Jackson
December 17, 2020

Interviews Ruth Franklin on the novels of Shirley Jackson: “She never did the same thing twice”
October 30, 2020
Table of Contents

The Road Through the Wall

Hangsaman

The Bird’s Nest

The Sundial

The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris
The Intoxicated
The Daemon Lover
Like Mother Used to Make
Trial by Combat
The Villager
My Life with R. H. Macy
The Witch
The Renegade
After You, My Dear Alphonse
Charles
Afternoon in Linen
Flower Garden
Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors
Colloquy
Elizabeth
A Fine Old Firm
The Dummy
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Come Dance with Me in Ireland
Of Course
Pillar of Salt
Men with Their Big Shoes
The Tooth
Got a Letter from Jimmy
The Lottery
Epilogue

The Haunting of Hill House

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Other Stories and Sketches

Uncollected Stories
Janice
A Cauliflower in Her Hair
Behold the Child Among His Newborn Blisses
It Isn’t the Money I Mind
The Third Baby’s the Easiest
The Summer People
Island
The Night We All Had Grippe
A Visit; or, The Lovely House
This Is the Life; or, Journey with a Lady
One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
Louisa, Please Come Home
The Little House
The Bus
The Possibility of Evil

Unpublished Stories
Portrait
The Mouse
I Know Who I Love
The Beautiful Stranger
The Rock
The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith

Appendix: Biography of a Story

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