Any Shirley Jackson fans?

[RetroLounge]

Just began the Haunting of Hill House (1959) for the first time...

Anyone else like her work?

RL

[Joanie Baloney]

1. Oh my...

"The Lottery" has stayed with me for 35 years. Short, powerful and still relevant today.

Happy reading! ;)

-JB

[RetroLounge]

4. Have not read that one yet either...

But I will. I have a copy somewhere.

:hi:

RL

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. The Lottery

still haunts me after all these years too , Joanie

[marylanddem]

2. Love her - Buy her short story collection, I think it's called

"The Lottery" & includes a bunch of stories - she was a great writer...

[Warpy]

3. "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

is one I read in my youth and haunted me for years.

The story has more holes than Swiss Cheese, but the characters, oh my!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

5. I remember that one, too

I think it may have been her only book that I read. Not sure why I didn't follow up with others.

[Warpy]

6. Probably creeped you out as much as it did me.

[SmokingJacket]

18. One of my favorite books. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Yes, wonderfully creepy writer, whose died far too young

I think she was only 45.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Oh yes....

I read them so many years ago. She was a terrific writer.

[hippywife]

9. Since you have kids, Retro...

I highly recommend reading Life Among The Savages. I'm sure you will be able to relate to it. I read it when I was very, very young and thought it was hysterically funny. I picked it up and read it again a couple of years ago. Still very funny.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. I LOVE that book, and the sequel "Raising Demons" it still cracks

me up. I read it in 8th grade in the Readers Digest condensed version and now own both novels. I have reread them several times.

[Mz Pip]

11. The Sundial

is a very strange end of the world novel.

THe Haunting of Hill House is one of the scariest books I've ever read. It's more of a psychological study of terror. And the last line of the book I remember to this day and I read it 40 years ago.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[RetroLounge]

12. The opening paragraph gave me chills...

:scared:

RL

[XemaSab]

16. and whatever walked there...

....walked ALONE. :o

[saltpoint]

13. 'Have read with deep appreciation "The Lottery" and saw a play version

done very well by a college theater group.

Shirley Jackson gets it done. A fine, fine writer.

Her character "Old Man Warriner" (sp?) is one of the most disturbing figures in fiction.

[RobertDevereaux]

15. Oh yes, The Lottery is tops!

Got it read to us in elementary school, way back when.

Ditto, W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw."

That's what probably turned me into a fiction writer.

[ncabot22]

17. I am a huge Shirley Jackson fan!

I'm glad to see you are reading her work. I think she is one of the most underrated writers in fiction. Enjoy!

[yellowdogintexas]

19. read that alone, upstairs in a creaky old victorian farm house during a storm

scared hell out of me, I was 15.