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.

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century.

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'

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...

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).

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).

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted.As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six piecesmore than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jacksons children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion.Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for, along with frank, inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays about her large, boisterous family; and whimsical drawings. Jacksons landscape here is most frequently domestic: dinner parties and bridge, household budgets and homeward-bound commutes, childrens games and neighborly gossip. But this familiar setting is also her most subversive: She wields humor, terror, and the uncanny to explore the real challenges of marriage, parenting, and communitythe pressure of social norms, the veins of distrust in love, the constant lack of time and space.For the first time, this collection showcases Shirley Jacksons radically different modes of writing side by side. Together they show her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist, and a powerful feminist.This volume includes a Foreword by the celebrated literary critic and Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin.

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro s favorites, from Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein" and Ray Russell s short story Sardonicus, considered by Stephen King to be perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written, to Shirley Jackson s "The Haunting of Hill House" and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. "The Haunting of Hill House" The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's"The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own."

The perfect read for Hallowe''en, this new hardback volume of Jackson''s finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best.There''s something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist. Shirley Jackson 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. 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 forty-eight. "An amazing writer." (Neil Gaiman). "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...She is a true master." (A. M. Homes). "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written." (Donna Tartt).

Estudia cinco obras representativas de este género en América Latina, "Matalaché" (1928), de Enrique López Albújar, "Ecué-Yamba-O" (1933), de Alejo Carpentier, "Juyungo (1940), de Adalberto Ortiz, "Cumboto" (1950), de Ramon Diaz Sanchez, y "Chambacu: Corral de negros" (1967) de Manuel Zapata Olivella. En su conjunto estas novelas no solo abarcan la region del Caribe -donde es mas destacado el aporte africano-, sino que extiende el radio de accion de la presencia negra al continente hispanoamericano. El examen de las cinco novelas ofrece al lector una vision intima y profunda del mundo en que vive el hombre de ascendencia africana en America, a la vez que ahonda en su dura realidad socioeconomica, en las claves de su religion y no elude la investigacion de sus actividades amorosas y sexuales, sin olvidar el singular pensamiento filosofico que ha heredado de Africa. Sin desechar los mitos completamente, este ensayo, no sucumbe sin embargo a la manera pintoresca en que usualmente han sido tratados y examina sus ecos -creencias, costumbres, conformaciones-, rastreando en ellos lo que hay de perdurable en el humanismo universal.

Hill House una mansión solitaria y de siniestra reputación. Montague decide alquilarla y busca ayudantes dispuestos a pasar una temporada en ella. El objetivo tomar notas de cualquier fenómeno paranormal que se presente para documentar el libro sobre casas encantadas que prepara el doctor. Las alucinantes experiencias que vivirán en la casa será mejor que el lector las descubra por sí mismo.

A collection of stories including "The Lottery".

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

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jacksons landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, childrens games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jacksons radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist.The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy ... The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind, which was ruminant and generous ... For those of us whose imaginations, and creative ambitions, were ignited by The Lottery, Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses -

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).