Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson. She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse." Jackson's husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, wrote in his preface to a posthumous anthology of her work that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements. She believed that her books would speak for her clearly enough over the years." Hyman insisted the darker aspects of Jackson's works were not, as some critics claimed, the product of "personal, even neurotic, fantasies", but that Jackson intended, as "a sensitive and faithful anatomy of our times, fitting symbols for our distressing world of the concentration camp and the Bomb", to mirror humanity's Cold War-era fears. Jackson may even have taken pleasure in the subversive impact of her work, as revealed by Hyman's statement that she "was always proud that the Union of South Africa banned The Lottery', and she felt that they at least understood the story". In 1965, Jackson died of heart failure in her sleep, at her home in North Bennington Vermont, at the age of 48.
Series
Books
The Intoxicated
1949
Elizabeth
2023
9 Magic Wishes
1963
The Story We Used to Tell
2025
The Summer People
1950
The Road Through the Wall, Hangsaman, and, The Bird's Nest
1998
Deja que te cuente
2015
Cuentos escogidos
2015
The Masterpieces Of Shirley Jackson
1996
The Lottery and Other Stories
1949
Shirley Jackson
Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s
2020
The Lottery
1948
Louisa, Please Come Home
1960
The Sundial
1958
Charles
1991
The Dark Descent
1987
The Road Through the Wall
1948
Trial by Combat
1944
El gran libro de Satán
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura maligna universal
2021
The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle
1991
Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край - Т. I
2017
The Renegade
1949
The Dummy
2023
After You, My Dear Alphonse
1943
The Possibility of Evil
1965
Krawall und Kekse
2022
The Uncanny Reader
Stories from the Shadows
2015
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
1956
Life Among the Savages
1953
The Magic of Shirley Jackson
1966
The Letters of Shirley Jackson
2021
A Visit
2025
A Fine Old Firm
2023
A Visit
A Ghost Story for Christmas
2022
Pillar of Salt
1983
Colloquy
1949
Got a Letter from Jimmy
1949
Колір зла
1987
American Gothic Tales
1996
What a Thought
1996
Just an Ordinary Day
1996
The Witch
1949
Pomeriggio d'estate
2020
Raising Demons
1957
Come Along With Me
1968
Novels & Stories
The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Other Stories and Sketches
2010
Of Course
2023
The Haunting of Hill House
1959
The Daemon Lover
1949
The Lottery and Seven Other Short Stories
2010
The Lottery
Adventures of the Daemon Lover
1949
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
1962
Seven Types of Ambiguity
1946
The Bird's Nest
1954
Men with Their Big Shoes
2020
The Missing Girl
2018
Dark Tales
2016
The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith
2020
Brave New Worlds
2010
Hangsaman
1951
La strega
1949
American Midnight
Tales of the Dark
2019
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
1955
The Tooth
1948
Like Mother Used To Make
2025
Come Dance with Me in Ireland
2023
