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(0)Shirley Jackson
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Language
English
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Description
A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate her remarkable range-from...
3) The lottery
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
The Road Through the Wall explores the secret longings, petty hatreds and ultimate terrors that lurk behind the manicured lawns and picture-perfect domestic facades of a California suburb. In Hangsaman, precocious Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on a friend who may or may not be imaginary. The Bird's Nest pits four unforgettable characters against each other in a battle for control: the shy, migraine-prone young officer worker Elizabeth...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a graphic-novel adaptation of the classic spine-tingler, the grandson of the story's original author depicts the eerie town and their shocking ritual in detailed four-color panels that breathe new life into the iconic tale.
9) The haunting
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A parapsychologist and two mediums spend a weekend in a haunted mansion.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil that...