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»Med sin skarpa blick på den mänskliga naturen, sin insikt i dess tilltrasslade insida och opålitliga varseblivning, lyckas hon skrämmas på riktigt.« Jenny Aschenbrenner, Svenska dagbladet »En av 1900-talets viktigaste skräckromaner.« Stephen King...

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Ett mästerverk av gotisk spänning.« | Joyce Carol Oates »En magnifik roman.« | The New York Times Book Review En gång var de sju i familjen Blackwood. Men en dödlig dos arsenik fann vägen till familjens sockerskål. Den enda som undvek sockret till...

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'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt Living in the Blackwood family home with o...

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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson&apos...

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A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jacksons chilling tale of power and fear Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate...

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Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, or...

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»Med sin skarpa blick på den mänskliga naturen, sin insikt i dess tilltrasslade insida och opålitliga varseblivning, lyckas hon skrämmas på riktigt.« Jenny Aschenbrenner, Svenska dagbladet »En av 1900-talets viktigaste skräckromaner.« Stephen King...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin ...

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'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic ...

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The best-known of Shirley Jackson''s novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear ''Shirley Jackson''s stories a...

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»Ett mästerverk av gotisk spänning.« Joyce Carol Oates En gång var de sju i familjen Blackwood. Men en dödlig dos arsenik fann vägen till familjens sockerskål. Den enda som undvek sockret till bären var äldsta systern Constance. Hon misstänktes fö...

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»Ett mästerverk av gotisk spänning.« Joyce Carol Oates En gång var de sju i familjen Blackwood. Men en dödlig dos arsenik fann vägen till familjens sockerskål. Den enda som undvek sockret till bären var äldsta systern Constance. Hon misstänktes fö...

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Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student. 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever wri...

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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Co...

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Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears.

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Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Pengui...

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Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror....

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Mästerliga noveller för första gången i svensk översättning »Suverän novellsamling.« Yukiko Duke, Vi läser »Mycket välkomponerade och spännande noveller.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Jonas Herrlin, BTJ »Shirley Jackson har en häpnadsväckande förmåga att illus...

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A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America ...

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A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a maste...

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Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously da...

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' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of u...

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The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be ...

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Reminiscent of her classic story 'The Lottery', Jackson's disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life. 'Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind c...

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The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil GaimanElizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with n...

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In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Mrs Halloran ...

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In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. 'An amazing writer' Neil GaimanMrs Halloran has inherit...

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Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student.'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tart...

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Reminiscent of her classic story 'The Lottery', Jackson's disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life. 'Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions,...

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