Shirley Jackson

Merricat lleva una vida solitaria en una gran casa apartada del pueblo. Allí pasa las horas recluida con su bella hermana mayor y su anciano tío Julián. En el hogar de los Blackwood los días discurrían apacibles si no fuera porque los otros miembros de la familia murieron envenenados alli mismo, en el comedor, seis años atras.

Cuatro personajes llegan a un viejo y laberíntico caserón conocido como Hill House. Son el doctor Montague, un estudioso de lo oculto que busca pruebas de fenómenos psíquicos en casas encantadas, y tres personas a quienes el doctor ha reclutado para llevar a cabo un experimento. A pesar de las reticencias de su familia, Eleanor, una joven algo atormentada y de pasado infeliz, acabara formando parte de la singular comitiva. Los otros son Theodora, con quien Eleanor establece un fuerte vinculo inicial, y Luke, el heredero de la casa. Pronto todos deberan enfrentarse a situaciones que estan mas alla de su comprension. Hill House parece estar preparandose para escoger a uno de ellos y hacerlo suyo para siempre. Llevada dos veces al cine e inspiracion de una reciente serie televisiva, "La maldicion de Hill House" es una de las novelas mas famosas de Shirley Jackson y una de las principales obras de terror del siglo XX.

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family. This Penguin edition includes an afterword by the acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates. All Shirley Jackson's other novels, plus The Lottery and Other Stories, are available in Penguin Modern Classics. Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lotterywas first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial,The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965 at the age of 48. 'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master' A. M. Homes 'A masterpiece of Gothic suspense' Joyce Carol Oates 'If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle ... you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman

Por la autora de Siempre hemos vivido en el castilloEn 2016 se celebrará el centenario del nacimiento de Shirley Jackson.Una mujer pasa el día de su boda buscando frenéticamente a su futuro marido, otra hace un extraño viaje nocturno en autobus, un librero satisface la, en apariencia, inofensiva solicitud de un cliente. Y, en el cuento mas celebrado de Shirley Jackson, los pobladores de una aldea se reunen para oficiar un inquietante ritual. La loteria, uno de los relatos mas turbadores que se hayan escrito nunca y un icono en la historia de la literatura norteamericana, encendio la polemica cuando se publico por primera vez, en la revista The New Yorker. Este volumen presenta una seleccion de los cuentos de Shirley Jackson e incluye tres conferencias de la autora, una de las cuales dedicada, precisamente, al escandalo que supuso la publicacion de su texto mas conocido.Una mujer pasa el dia de su boda buscando freneticamente a su futuro marido, otra hace un extraño viaje nocturno en autobus, un librero satisface la, en apariencia, inofensiva solicitud de un cliente. Y, en el cuento mas celebrado de Shirley Jackson, los pobladores de una aldea se reunen para oficiar un inquietante ritual. La loteria, uno de los relatos mas turbadores que se hayan escrito nunca y un icono en la historia de la...

Publicada per primera vegada als Estats Units el 1959, La maledicció de Hill House està considerada una de les obres mestres de la literatura de terror, una novel•la que ha marcat les trajectòries d'

«Exquisita y poderosa hasta lo letal, como un caramelo venenoso.» Mariana Enriquez Shirley Jackson, autora de obras maestras como La maldición de Hill House y Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, fir

Natalie Waite tiene diecisiete años. Nacida en el seno de una familia asfixiante constituida por el padre, escritor mediocre y egocéntrico, y la madre, un ama de casa neurótica, llega el día en que se marcha a estudiar. Es posible que justo antes de irse pasara algo que no quiere o no puede contar. Pronto, ya en la universidad, su vida se transformará en un aterrador juego de espejos. Exploración magistral y perturbadora de la psique de una adolescente atribulada, Hangsaman (1951) se ha descrito como una novela de formación y también como una novela de campus, pero esas definiciones se quedan cortas. Aunque incluye elementos de ambas, además de un toque satírico, las vicisitudes de la protagonista acontecen en el límite con la pesadilla. La narración rezuma ambigüedad. La realidad es esquiva. Tratándose de Shirley Jackson, la oscuridad está siempre al acecho.

This is the unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and casual cruelty have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48. "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse". (A. M. Homes). "Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders". (Dorothy Parker). "Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers ...whose work exerts an enduring spell". (Joyce Carol Oates).

A melhor história de casa assombrada de todos os tempos é agora a inspiração de uma série original Netflix. Considerada a rainha do terror por mestres como Stephen King e Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson

Com um humor macabro, Sempre vivemos no castelo conta a história deliciosamente sombria da família Blackwood.Merricat Blackwood vive com a irmã Constance e o tio Julian. Há algum tempo existiam sete

Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written". (Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch). Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse". (A. M. Homes). "Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders". (Dorothy Parker).

In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked granddaughter and the confusion of the rest of the household. But when the original owner - long dead - arrives to announce the world is ending and only the house and its occupants will be saved, they find themselves in a nightmare of strange marble statues, mysterious house guests and the beautiful, unsettling Halloran sundial which seems to be at the centre of it all. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48. "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse". (A. M. Homes). "Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders". (Dorothy Parker). "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written". (Donna Tartt).

Considerada a rainha do terror por mestres como Stephen King e Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson cria uma obra perturbadora sobre a relaço entre a loucura e o sobrenatural. A assombraço da Casa da Colina e considerada a melhor historia de casa assombrada de todos os tempos e inspirou a serie original Netflix A Maldiço da Residencia Hill.Sozinha no mundo, Eleanor fica encantada ao receber uma carta do dr. Montague convidando-a para passar um tempo na Casa da Colina, um local conhecido por suas manifestaçes fantasmagoricas. O mesmo convite e feito a Theodora, uma alma artistica e sensitiva, e a Luke, o herdeiro da manso. Porem, o que começa como uma exploraço bem-humorada de um mito inocente se transforma em uma viagem para os piores pesadelos de seus hospedes. Com o tempo, fica cada vez mais claro que a sanidade e a vida de todos esta em risco."A historia de casa mal-assombrada mais proxima da perfeiço que eu ja li." Stephen King"Nenhum organismo vivo pode continuar existindo com sanidade sob condiçes de realidade absoluta por muito tempo; ate cotovias e gafanhotos, supem alguns, sonham. A Casa da Colina, desprovida de sanidade, se erguia solitaria contra os montes, aprisionando as trevas em seu interior; estava desse jeito havia oitenta anos e talvez continuasse por mais oitenta. La dentro, paredes continuavam de pe, tijolos se juntavam com perfeiço, assoalhos estavam firmes e portas estavam sensatamente fechadas; o silencio se escorava com equilibrio na madeira e nas pedras da Casa da Colina, e o que entrasse ali, entrava sozinho."

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories. 'Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation' - San Francisco Chronicle 'For Jackson devotees, as well as first-time readers, this is a feast ...A virtuoso collection' - Publishers Weekly

Último romance publicado pela autora, Sempre Vivemos no Castelo é considerado uma obra fundamental da literatura norte-americana.Considerado pela crítica uma das obras-primas da literatura norte-americana, Sempre Vivemos no Castelo narra a historia da extravagante familia Blackwood ou do que dela restou, apos a morte por envenenamento de quase todos os seus elementos a mesa de jantar. Constance, uma das filhas, e ilibada do crime, passando a viver isolada na grande casa da familia, longe da hostilidade dos habitantes da cidade. Com ela vivem o seu tio invalido, o gato Jonas e a sua irm, Merricat, uma adolescente ingenua e invulgar que acredita em lobisomens, no poder dos objectos e em palavras magicas, e que tudo fara para preservar este pequeno e estranho mundo. Essa fragil harmonia, contudo, e subitamente rompida com a chegada do primo Charles. Na sua presença, os terriveis acontecimentos do passado voltaro para assombrar os Blackwood, revelando a sua verdadeira face.Traduço do ingles de Maria Joo Freire de AndradeOs elogios da critica:Sempre Vivemos no Castelo e uma memoravel dramatizaço da agorafobia levada ao extremo.Rogerio Casanova, LERShirley Jackson foi das que melhor cultivaram este regresso a um terror que se serve de inicio tepido e que vai aquecendo muito lentamente.Rui Lagartinho, Time OutOs seus romances deixaram uma marca em como se le e ve o terror e, sobretudo, na forma como se olha para a familia norte-americana.Andre Santos, SabadoPersonagens bem desenhadas e a escrita excelente, feita de palavras comuns e percepço afinada.Luis M. Faria, ExpressoUma mestre maior do terror e do suspense.The New York Times Book ReviewShirley Jackson e uma escritora inimitavel cujas palavras permanecem connosco durante muito tempo.Joyce Carol OatesShirley Jackson era uma escritora incrivel Se nunca leram Sempre Vivemos no Castelo ou A Maldiço de Hill House, esto a perder uma coisa maravilhosa.Neil GaimanShirley Jackson e impar na criaço de tremores silenciosos, crescentes e excepcionalmente bem escritos.Dorothy Parker

Estas páginas consiguen el irónico milagro de persuadir al lector de que una casa habitada por un lunático, un envenenador y un pirómano es un mundo más acogedor, amoroso y sutil que el mundo real ex

Merricat lleva una vida solitaria en una gran casa apartada del pueblo. Allí pasa las horas recluida con su bella hermana mayor y su anciano tío Julián. En el hogar de los Blackwood los días discurrían apacibles si no fuera porque los otros miembros de la familia murieron envenenados alli mismo, en el comedor, seis años atras.