More from Shirley Jackson

  1. I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
  2. I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it w…
  3. Curiously, there are three main themes which dominate the letters of that first summer--three themes which might be identified as bewilderm…
  4. It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and…
  5. This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitt…
  6. Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance.
  7. Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful t…
  8. No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac jux…

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