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As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read ... Stepping into Hill House is like stepping into the mind of a madman; it isn't long before you weird yourself out -- Stephen King No one can touch her -- Donna Tartt An amazing writer -- Neil Gaiman Not only the best haunted-house story ever written, but also a quiet subversion of the ingenue trope in horror fiction -- Joanne Harris The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master -- A. M. Homes The quintessential haunted-house story ... A masterpiece of edgy tension and creeping terror * Independent * A novel which at one stroke puts her unquestionably among the great masters of the genre . . . as spine-chilling as anything Edgar Allan Poe dreamed up * Daily Telegraph *
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. 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. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.