‘ “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...

Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end…. Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But...

For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in...

HANGSAMAN is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediately present. “Natalie Waite who was seventeen years old but who felt that she had been truly conscious only since she was about fifteen...

A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story “The Lottery” At last, Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery” enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it...

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. “Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses....