Shirley Jackson, Author, Sarah H. Stewart, Editor, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Editor Bantam Books $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-10303-8
From the hilarious first story in this treat of a collection, in which a college girl tricks the devil (horns, hoofs and all) into selling her his soul, we know we are in Jackson territory-the Jackson of the classic short story ""The Lottery'' and...
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Shirley Jackson, read by Bernadette Dunne, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-3426-6
Since the mysterious death of four family members, the superstitious Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, her ailing uncle Julian, and agoraphobic sister Constance have lived in a bizarre but contented state of isolation. But when cousin Charles...
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Shirley Jackson, Author, Miles Hyman, Illustrator , illus. by Miles Hyman. FSG $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35525-8
Luminous pastels by Jackson's grandson breathe life into this haunting 1963 tale, the only children's book written by the author of "The Lottery." Hyman sets the stage for the story's mix of fantasy and reality in the opening...
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Shirley Jackson, read by Lesa Lockford. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-68141-112-5
Originally published as short stories in women’s magazines in the 1940s, these funny, semi-autobiographical anecdotes from Jackson describe life with three young children in rural Vermont and were first assembled into a novel in 1952. Reader...
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Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt. Random, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9766-8
Jackson, an inspiration to writers from Stephen King to Joyce Carol Oates, dared to look on the dark side and imagine the unimaginable, as demonstrated in this volume of her uncollected and unpublished work. The selected fiction and nonfiction...
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Edited by Laurence Hyman. Random House, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-593-13464-1
The life of Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)—as a mother and a writer—emerges in vivid detail in this collection of correspondence, edited by her son Hyman (Let Me Tell You). The letters begin with Jackson at college writing to her future husband,...
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Edited by Ruth Franklin. Library of America, $40 (850p) ISBN 978-1-59853-670-6
Admirers of Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) will welcome this collection of her first four novels. The Road Through the Wall (1948) satirizes suburban life, slowly revealing the petty jealousies and casual cruelty of the residents of a “nice”...
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