Books like Sundial by Shirley Jackson

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.

A haunting examination of a woman's descent into madness, set against the backdrop of post‑partum mental illness and early feminist thought.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

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.

Shirley Jackson's chilling short story "The Lottery" portrays a seemingly ordinary village ritual that reveals a dark climax.

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

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.

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.

Madge's summer vacation has ended, and she is back in school. Madge and her friends initiate Cara Wayne into their secret society by requesting that Cara visit the spooky Swenster mansion at night. Cara comes back tremendously frightened because she saw a ghost digging on the property. While the other girls are skeptical, Madge feels that Cara did see something strange. Madge and Cara visit the Swenster mansion the next day and meet Agatha Swenster, who plans to sell the house. The girls quickly become friends with Miss Swenster and help her prepare the mansion and its contents for auction. The girls learn of a valuable pearl necklace that has been missing for years and how much its recovery would mean to Miss Swenster. The girls search for the pearl necklace and hope that they can recover it so that Miss Swenster does not have to sell the mansion.