
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 dark tales the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide & seek the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts & the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson nothing is as it seems & nowhere is safe from the city streets to the country manor & from the small-town apartment to the dark dark woods
Includes: the following stories ' The Possibility of Evil'; ' Louisa Please Come Home'; ' Paranoia'; ' The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith'; ' The Story We Used to Tell'; ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice'; ' Jack the Ripper'; ' The Beautiful Stranger'; ' All She Said Was Yes'; ' What a Thought'; ' The Bus'; ' Family Treasures'; 'A Visit'; ' The Good Wife'; ' The Man in the Woods'; ' Home'; ' The Summer People'