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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1954
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Book List in Order: 26 titles



  • Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes h...



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    Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end.... Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she repor...



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    The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre

    First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive...



  • Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

    Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books |...



  • Experience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work. This collection consists of three complete books:The Bird's NestLife Among the SavagesRaising Demonsand eleven short stories--including the world-famo...



  • 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 audiences and elicited t...



  • Meet: The charming, elusive gentleman with the ordinary name of James Harris and with the extraordinary effect on the lives of those whose paths cross his… The housewife who finds that just beyond her ruffle-curtained windows lies a landscape...



  • Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearanceSeventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein o...








  • In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her childrenIn the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savage...



  • “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 ChronicleAcclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and...



  • When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.s, including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, and the mistaken identity. Now, in Murderous Sc...



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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...



  • Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits...

    Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, and occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, h...



  • Great Authors introduces readers to six of the world's premier authors and how they use language to create literary works of art. Each book presents a collection of the author's best short stories, a biography, and insightful notes about the stories....



  • It begins on a most unusual day, when a blue sun rises in a green sky and dozens of balloons fly from every tree. And when a magician in a long black coat and a starry hat turns up, the sights become even stranger. The magician grants a lucky child n...



  • In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.   In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of smal...



  • Reminiscent of her classic story 'The Lottery', Jackson's disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life. In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighborhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, t...






  • Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted. As we approach the centenary of her birth comes...



  • 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 a...







  • World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.Margaret visits the lavish home of her friend Carla Rhodes for the summer holidays. But when Carla's brother arrives with a mysterious friend, strange occurrences cause tens...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shirley Jackson has published 26 books.

Shirley Jackson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Visit, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest, was published in June 1954.

No. Shirley Jackson does not write books in series.