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Dark Tales

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  • Oct 6, 2016
  • #Horror
Shirley Jackson
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For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her sh... Show More

For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh

After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the "The Possibility of Evil" and "The Summer People." In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There's something sinister in suburbia.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Number of Pages: 208

ISBN: 0241295424

ISBN-13: 9780241295427

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Kay Harlan @kay__harlan
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Shirley Jackson is a master of the uncanny and of her characters’ reactions to it. It’s often unclear where the dividing line is, whether the protagonist imagines horrible things because they are afraid or becomes afraid because they are perceiving horrible things. Either way, the sense of unease animating her stories grows so intense that reality itself seems to falter before it, like turning the volume on a speaker up until it pops. Dark Tales is a great introduction to Jackson’s short fiction that showcases her skill with the mundane and the terrifying, and her particular talent for mingling them.
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