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