Shirley Jackson

Kristopher Woofter teaches courses in horror, the Gothic, and the Weird tradition in literature and the moving image in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Québec. He has co-edited several collections, including American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (2021), Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond (2019), and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (2015). He has also published essays on the series Supernatural (2020), Caitlín R. Kiernan (2019), George A. Romero (2018), pseudo-documentary (2018), The Cabin in the Woods (2014), and the Gothic documentary (2013).

«Shirley Jackson: A Companion is an enormously valuable addition to the Jacksonrenaissance, a collection of twenty original essays eloquently framed by editorKristopher Woofter’s argument about Jackson’s abiding sense of the apocalyptic.Woofter has made a point of soliciting essays on Jackson’s lesser-known themes(such as race), works, and adaptations – and readers will learn something new fromevery chapter.» (Dawn Keetley, Professor of English, Lehigh University)

• Contents: Reading Jackson: Style, Theme, Tradition – Ralph Beliveau: Shirley Jackson and American Folk Horror: The Public Face of Private Demons – Michael T. Wilson: «How the Dinner Revolves»: Eating, Food, and Consumption in the Fiction of Shirley Jackson – Daniel T. Kasper: The Posthumous Style of Shirley Jackson – Carl H. Sederholm: Raising Her Voice: Stephen King’s Literary Dialogue with Shirley Jackson – The Politics and Poetics of Space – Patrycja Antoszek: «Intrusions from the Outside World»: Shirley Jackson and the Politics and Poetics of Enclosure – Dara Downey: «No one Can Ever Find Me»: Gingerbread Houses in Shirley Jackson’s Fiction – Elizabeth Mahn Nollen: The «Terrible» House as Locus of Female Power in We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Michelle Kay Hansen: «Move Your Feet, Dear. I’m Conga- ing»: Drawing Circles around Domesticity in Shirley Jackson’s Cartoons – Luke Reid: Romancing the Nostalgic Future: Prophecy, Planning, and Postwar Architecture in The Sundial – Mothers and Other Monsters – Wyatt Bonikowski: Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Secret of the Mother’s Desire in The Bird’s Nest – Rebecca Million: Living an Aporia: Notes on Shirley Jackson’s Home Books and the Impossible- Possible of Motherhood – Ibi Kaslik: Hangsaman: Writing the Self in Blood at the Margins – Mikaela Bobiy: Home Is Where the Heart Is(n’t): The House as Mother in Jackson’s House Trilogy – Outsiders and Minorities – Emily Banks: Erotic Envy and the Racial Other in «Flower Garden» – Stephanie A. Graves: Wicked Creature(s): Delirium and Difference in The Witchcraft of Salem Village – Rebecca Stone Gordon: «A Lady of Undeniable Gifts but Dubious Reputation»: Reading Theodora in The Haunting of Hill House – Jackson on Film and Television – Will Dodson: «Some Disturbing Obstruction»: Lizzie from The Bird’s Nest – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Walking Alone Together: Adapting Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House – Kristopher Woofter: Long Twilight (Hosszú Alkony), Shirley Jackson, and the Eerie In- Between – Erin Giannini: A Good Life?: Merricat, from Tyrant to Savior in We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Its Film Adaptation – Darryl Hattenhauer: Afterword.