Shirley Jackson

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...

Dark Tales

Silje Løvli Lorentsen

And we looked at the picture of the old old house, standing dark and tall against the sky, with the windows of this very room shining faintly through the trees, and the steep winding road coming through the gates and down to the very edge of the picture. "I'm glad the glass is there", I said, giggling. "I'd hate to have a landslide start on that mountain and come down into our laps!" "Into my bed, you mean", Y said. "I don't know if I'll be able to sleep, with the old place overhead".

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