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Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chroni ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
25.45 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Lottery (Little Clothbound Classics) by Shirley Jackson Jonathan Tulloch
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short ...Show more
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
3.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern
Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing . . . 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
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