Sometimes, as in the work of Shirley Jackson, the gothic overlays the domestic, to unsettling effect.

Who, then, was Shirley Jackson, this author of savage parables and domestic comedy?

But despite the growing distance, my mother and I shared something far more important: reading Shirley Jackson.

In 1965, Shirley Jackson died of heart failure in her sleep at the age of 48.

December 14 - Shirley Jackson, horror novelist and short story writer (died 1965)

The narrator is assumed to be Shirley Jackson herself.

Not unlike Shirley Jackson, this woman is heavy and wears harlequin glasses.

"The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson.

Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things.

What kind of a mother was Shirley Jackson?

Sometimes, as in the work of Shirley Jackson, the gothic overlays the domestic, to unsettling effect.

Who, then, was Shirley Jackson, this author of savage parables and domestic comedy?

But despite the growing distance, my mother and I shared something far more important: reading Shirley Jackson.

In 1965, Shirley Jackson died of heart failure in her sleep at the age of 48.

December 14 - Shirley Jackson, horror novelist and short story writer (died 1965)

The narrator is assumed to be Shirley Jackson herself.

Not unlike Shirley Jackson, this woman is heavy and wears harlequin glasses.

"The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson.

Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things.

What kind of a mother was Shirley Jackson?