Shirley Jackson

Ruth Franklin

From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House comes a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected work. Since her death in 1965, Shirley Jackson's place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has only grown, and nowLet Me Tell You brings together her uniquely eerie short stories, frank and inspiring lectures on writing, comic essays about her family, and revelatory personal letters and drawings.

New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Let Me Tell You

Lara Engle

I love Shirley Jackson. Like, unreasonably. So much. After reading this, I both love her and identify with her. She and I both have four children. We both have wacky internal monologues creating weird stories for everything. Even though she was raising her children 50+ years before I was raising mine, we had similar challenges, frustrations, and joys. Some of the family stories really hit too close to home and made me thankful my children are all (theoretically) adults. Well, adult in age, anyway. My favorite part of the book was the short stories at the beginning, but there were things to enjoy throughout. Reading this makes me want to write down more of the weird little stories I have in my head.

Let Me Tell You New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

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