American · b. 1916
Shirley Jackson was an American writer and master of psychological horror and the Gothic, author of The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and the story 'The Lottery.'
Shirley Jackson was a master of unease, writing fiction that found terror and the uncanny in domestic life, small-town conformity, and the troubled psyche.
Her short story “The Lottery” (1948) caused a sensation with its chilling depiction of ritual violence in an ordinary village. Her novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle are celebrated as masterpieces of psychological horror and the Gothic, their dread arising as much from the mind as from the supernatural.
Jackson is now recognized as one of the great American writers of horror and unease, a profound influence on writers from Stephen King onward.
by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece of psychological horror. A doctor studying the supernatural invites a small group to spend the summer in Hill House, a mansion with a sinister history — and the fragile, lonely Eleanor finds the house reaching into the deepest recesses of her mind.
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