Shirley jackson

The final piece in a three-part series featuring the author’s lectures on writing.

Katy Horan

On the 100th anniversary of the author's birth, revisit the original reviews of her haunting stories

A profile of the late American writer, renowned for her unsettling and disturbing stories.

Author Shirley Jackson’s son remembers a very different woman from the one portrayed in the new Hollywood film.

Oz Perkins’ I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is a ghost story both in content and in form. It is a ghost story in content in that the narrative has to do with a hospice nurse, Li…

Read 28.3k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Ju…

Born December 14, 1916 in San Francisco, California, Shirley Hardie Jackson grew up in an upper-middle class family (Hall 185). She spent much of her teen years observing her surroundings and recording her thoughts in journals in which she practiced disciplining her daily writing habits (Oppenheimer). Most of her journal entries contain typical adolescent musings…

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)