![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bird's Nest (1954) has not one but four protagonists: the shy, demure young Elizabeth and, revealed with a series of surprising twists, her other, multiple personalities. ![]() In Hangsaman (1951)-inspired by the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore-the precocious but lonely Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on an imaginary friend. Her haunting debut tale The Road Through the Wall (1948) explores the secret desires, petty hatreds, and ultimate terrors that lurk beneath the picture-perfect domesticities of a suburban California neighborhood. Now, Jackson's award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin gathers the subtle, chilling, hypnotic novels with which she began her unique career. Shirley Jackson-the beloved author of The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle-is more and more being recognized as one of the finest writers of the American gothic tradition, a true heir of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror. ![]()
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