Shirley Jackson Books In Order
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Life Among the Savages | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Demons | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Road Through the Wall | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hangsaman | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bird's Nest | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witchcraft of Salem Village | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sundial | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting of Hill House | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Famous Sally | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Men with Their Big Shoes | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tooth | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lottery | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Summer People | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Missing Girl | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
9 Magic Wishes | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Shirley Jackson Chap Books
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Charles | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
The Lottery and Other Stories | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine Magic Wishes | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic of Shirley Jackson | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Come Along with Me | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just an Ordinary Day | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Masterpieces Of Shirley Jackson | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Short Stories | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Novels and Stories | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Tales | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down by the Old Blood Stream | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice. | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1947 | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1956 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1979 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1983 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
50 Great Short Stories | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Points of View | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories for the Dead of Night | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Web She Weaves | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chapter and Hearse | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Movies | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mistresses of the Dark | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Shorts: Family Matters | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Midnight | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shirley Jackson (born: 1916- Died: 1965) was an American author of Short Stories, Horror, Biographies, and Memoirs. She was famous during her times, and her works have received literary critics in the recent years. She has been acknowledged as an inspiration to a set of authors including Sarah Waters, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Kneale, Joanne Harris, and Richard Matheson.
Jackson is famously known for her short story The Lottery (1948) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959), which is considered as one of her best ghost stories ever written. The author was born in San Francisco, California, even though she claimed that she was born in 1919, her birth record stated that she was born in 1916. Her family lived in Burlingame, California, a wealthy middle-class suburban that was featured in Shirley’s debut novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948). Her relationship with her mother was a strained, her parent had married young, and her mother was disappointed that she became pregnant with Shirley as she was looking forward to spending good times with her husband. Due to this reason, Shirley was unable to fit with other children and thus spent most of her time writing more so to her mother’s distress.
Shirley attended Brighton High School; she then attended the University of Rochester so that her parent could keep an eye on her. She transferred to Syracuse University where she flourished both creatively and socially unlike in her previous university. It is in Rochester where Shirley got met her future man, Stanley Edgar Hyman and also participated in the university literary magazine.
Shirley and Hayman were known for their generosity and often surrounded themselves with remarkable literary talents. They were both passionate readers, and their personal library contained over 100, 000 books. They were blessed with four children, Joanne (Jannie), Laurence (Laurie), Barry, and Sarah (Sally). Shirley died in 1965 from congestive heart failure in her sleep in North Bennington aged 48.
During her lifetime, Shirley novels were nominated and won various awards. For example, Come Dance with Me in Ireland was selected as the Best American Short Stories in 1944. The Haunting Hill House was nominated for National Book Award in 1960. Birthday Party was chosen as the Best American Short Stories of 1964. Come Along with me was featured in New York Times Book Reviews for Best Fiction of 1968 category. In 2007, Shirley Jackson Award was established- the award is often awarded to authors in the literature of horror, dark fantastic and psychological suspense.
In addition to television, theater and radio adaptations, The Lottery was filmed three times. Shirley’s novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle was made into a by Hugh Wheeler starring Shirley Knight. Come Along with me was adapted as an episode of American Playhouse which aired 1982-1993.
In 2010, “………..Live in the Castle” was adapted into a musical drama that aired at Yale Repertory Theater in 2010.
In 2016, We Have Always Lived in the Castle was optioned for mystery thriller film adaptation. The movie directed by Stacie Passon stars Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan, Taisa Farmiga, and Crispin Glover.
The Haunting of Hill House
Published in 1959, The Haunting of Hill House is considered one of Shirley’s best works of unnerving terror. It is a tale of four seekers who make their way at a strange pile called Hill House.
Dr. Montague, an occult scholar, searching for a reliable evidence of a haunting, then there is Theodora, his assistant, Eleanor, the lonely and fragile young lady, Luke the heir of the Hill House. At first, their stay appears to be a merely mysterious encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but what they do not know is that the house is gradually uniting its powers and soon it will choose one of its visitors to make its own.
The main character in the story is Eleanor; she is such a fantastic character. She is not sure whether she believes haunting stories, but still, she agrees to spend summer at the house claimed to be haunted. She is somehow insecure, introverted and most cases find herself fantasizing about her present and future situations. Eleanor is both fascinated and also frightened by the idea of solitude. Being an introvert, some of her best fantasies involve being alone secluded in a place without the unwelcome intrusion of others. However, after spending nights at the haunted house, probably being alone isn’t the best idea. What induces fear in Eleanor and the other residents of the Hill House is the incapability to reconcile with the observed phenomena the moment it occurs. They encounter something which explanation cannot instantaneously be provided, and their minds are unable to cope.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Merricat Blackwood resides on the family home with her beautiful sister Constance and their uncle Julian. Few years ago, there were seven family members until a killer dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one night. Cleared of the murders, Constance is back home, and her sister, Merricat protects her from the hostility and the curiosity of the neighbors. Their days in isolation are happy until the day their cousin Charles shows up. Only Merricat can sense the danger, and she must act quickly if she needs to save her sister from the wrath of their cousin.
Hangsaman
Hangsaman is the second novel by Shirley Jackson. The narrative is simple but one that the overtones are immediately present.
A sophisticated young woman narrates her difficult path from being the daughter and the child to a college woman. Can something sophisticated and naïve both be present at once? The author has worked such kind of integrated 2nd person commentary, but often in the voicing of a detective, news reporter, and some other questioning person.
Hangsaman features a unique and comprehensive cast of characters. First, there is Natalie, a woman in pursuit of self-discovery, and she has to deal with the situation of being the odd one in the family. Then there is the insufferably Natalie’s father- his letters to his daughters while at college perfect masterpieces of blocked empathy and self-importance. If you are an avid reader of horror novels, then Shirley Jackson book are good match for you.
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