
A remarkable collection of dark funny & haunting short stories from the inimitable author of ' The Lottery' An anxious devil an elderly writer of poison pen letters & a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief & a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes This is the world of Shirley Jackson by turns frightening funny strange & unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories' Jackson at her best plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common Just an Ordinary Day is a gift to a new generation'
- San Francisco Chronicle' For Jackson devotees as well as first-time readers this is a feast A virtuoso collection'
- Publishers Weekly