When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Biography: Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916.'Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers.whose work exerts an enduring spell' Joyce Carol Oates
'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable' A. 'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' Stephen King If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman Twice filmed as The Haunting, and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror. But what begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their darkest nightmares, and an investigation that one of their number may not survive. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic 'sensitive', and Luke, heir to the house. 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttĪlone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear Oates wrote a new introduction for The Folio Society edition of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevskyin 2021.Also available on eBook for £3.99. In 2010 she was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Together with her first husband she founded and edited a literary magazine, the Ontario Review, and an associated publishing house. Oates taught writing at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014. Her best-received fictions include the Wonderland Quartet (1967–71) – the third volume, Them, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970 – and Blonde (2000), a fictional treatment of the life of Marilyn Monroe, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Oates read widely in 19th-century fiction as a girl – and has cited Dostoyevsky as an early influence – before encountering classic works of modernism as a student at Syracuse University, all of which helped to shape her own writing. Since then, she has published a further 57 novels as well as many books of short stories, poems, plays and nonfiction. Joyce Carol Oates’ first novel, With Shuddering Fall, was published in 1964 when she was still in her twenties.
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