Books like Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin
607 pages : 21 cm
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Ruth Franklin
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Books similar to Shirley Jackson (18 similar books)
Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.
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A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.
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A humorous memoir of Shirley Jackson’s rural Vermont upbringing, detailing family antics, household mishaps, and the everyday challenges faced by mother and wife.
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Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.
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Chris Kraus offers a definitive, authorized biography of Kathy Acker, tracing her rise from teenage writer to pioneering American novelist, exploring her experimental literature, cultural activism, and the context of late twentieth‑century artistic movements.
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A biographical study of Shirley Jackson by Lenemaja Friedman, exploring her literary career and themes within American horror, especially the famous work *Haunting of Hill House*.
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The Keepers of the House follows the Howland family of a Mississippi plantation as a long‑shrouded truth about an interracial relationship threatens to upend their standing and forces a young woman to confront betrayal, injustice, and her own agency.
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A collection of Shirley Jackson’s short fiction, featuring unsettling and socially critical tales that explore family dynamics, rituals, and communal power.
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Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson's characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl--but four separate, self-destructive personalities.
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A companion volume of 56 Shirley Jackson pieces—over forty first‑time prints—including unsettling short stories, candid essays, humorous family recollections, and whimsical illustrations.
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A family gathering turns sinister when an aunt’s apocalyptic vision triggers madness, fear, and violence among relatives in Shirley Jackson’s atmospheric Gothic tale.
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A poignant memoir about a child's acceptance of her uncertain past and a life adrift in modern America.
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"This collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on works such as The road through the wall and We have always lived in the castle and topics from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book makes available some of the significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades"--Provided by publisher.
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A collection of twelve sharp, humorous short stories that poke fun at modern womanhood, blending everyday domestic scenes with darker twists of revenge and reinvention.
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