Shirley Jackson

Dans la lugubre maison Hill House, que l'on dit hantée, le Dr Montagu réunit quatre personnes aussi mystérieuses que mal accordées afin d'étudier les phénomènes surnaturels et leurs conséquences sur chacun d'eux.

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Ces 13 nouvelles glaçantes de Shirley Jackson feraient pâlir d’angoisse Hitchcock lui-même. Sous un cuir souple et de qualité se cache le sang à peine...

Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village....

Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When...

The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked...

Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible...

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she...

In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting...

Originalmente publicado em 1954 e lançado pela primeira vez em língua portuguesa nesta edição, O ninho do pássaro é um romance menos conhecido de Shirley Jackson, mas não menos impactante.

Com um humor macabro, Sempre vivemos no castelo conta a história deliciosamente sombria da família Blackwood.

La diciottenne Mary Katherine ci racconta della grande casa dove vive reclusa con la bella sorella Constance e lo zio invalido...

Pura e semplice descrizione della lotteria che si svolge nell'atmosfera pastorale, quasi idilliaca, di un villaggio del New England...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar Award for...

“Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation.”—San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill...

Merricat lebt am Rande eines Dorfes im Schloss der Familie Blackwood, nur in Gesellschaft ihrer Schwester Constance und dem wunderlichen...

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix....

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation....

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...