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Shirley Jackson knew that the most frightening things don’t always go bump in the night. A family home, a close-knit community or a seemingly ordinary conversation can become deeply unsettling in her hands – often with a wicked streak of humour running through the darkness.

The Haunting of Hill House takes readers inside one of literature’s most terrifying houses, where supernatural disturbances and psychological disintegration become impossible to separate. We Have Always Lived in the Castle introduces the wonderfully strange Blackwood sisters and a world of family secrets, isolation and suspicion, while The Lottery and Other Dark Tales reveals Jackson’s mastery of the short story, finding menace beneath the surface of small-town American life.

Artist Angie Hoffmeister brings a shared visual language to all three Folio books with her atmospheric artwork and ominous imagery. Whether you begin at Hill House, visit the Blackwoods or take your chances with ‘The Lottery’, there are plenty of dark corners to explore.

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Shirley Jackson

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Angie Hoffmeister

Shirley Jackson

The Shirley Jackson Collection

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Step into the deliciously unsettling world of Shirley Jackson. From the haunted halls of The Haunting of Hill House and the strange Blackwood home of We Have Always Lived in the Castle to the creeping dread of The Lottery and Other Dark Tales, discover three masterworks of psychological suspense and American Gothic.

Illustrated By Angie Hoffmeister

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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (1918–65) was one of the greatest American gothic writers of the 20th century – an heir to the tradition of Hawthorne and Poe. Jackson was brought up in California and educated in Syracuse, New York, where she met the man she would marry. The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, where Jackson spent the last 20 years of her life. Her career writing short stories was lucrative, and for some time she was highly regarded as the author of Life Among the Savages (1952), a witty fictionalised memoir about life as a mother; but this work has now been eclipsed by Jackson’s reputation as the author of horror and ghost-story masterpieces such as the controversial short work ‘The Lottery’ (1948, Folio 2025) and the novels The Haunting of Hill House (1959, Folio 2022) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962, Folio 2023).