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Title	:	Dark Tales
Author	:	Shirley Jackson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2016 by Penguin Classics (first published 2013)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Horror. Fiction. Classics. Gothic. Mystery

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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 might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There's something sinister in suburbia.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Original Title:	Dark Tales
ISBN:	0241295424 (ISBN13: 9780241295427)

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'She knew that if she asked her husband to take her to a movie, or out for a ride, or to play gin rummy, he would smile at her and agree; he was always willing to do things to please her, still, after ten years of marriage. An odd thought crossed her mind: she would pick up the heavy glass ashtray and smash her husband over the head with it.'For me, this short story collection proofed once and for all that Shirley Jackson is the true queen of creating creeping unease and the suburban gothic. All

I love Shirley Jackson, I don't know another author like her and some of the short stories in this collection are just incredible. Eery, uncomfortable, strange... But some I didn't quite understand, I must admit. This book is a definite "will read again" and maybe I'll get more out of the ones that confused me this time. If not I'm already looking forward to the ones I loved this time around. One or two reminded me of these Dahl short stories that have stayed with me for years now because

Shirley Jackson here shows her mastery of the short story. Each of these 17 tales reflect normality gone wrong, staring with the world we all know, life 'as it is'. Then at various speeds and levels of intensity, Jackson takes the reader into the unusual, bizarre, unexpected. In some stories it is slipped under your radar so well that you carry on for several sentences or paragraphs after the divergence before you think 'hang on, what?' and have to go back to read it all over again. I'm not

Shirley Jackson needs no reviews from me: she is simply the best and most nuanced storyteller of unease and suburban discomfort of her generation. So many great writers reflect her influence. Without her, Iain Banks' WASP FACTORY would have been very different; Stephen King's GUNSLINGER books would have lost much of their inspiration and Chris Fowler's short fiction would have been greatly impoverished. All I can say if you haven't read her, is: I envy you a little. You still have this to come.

This is a superb collection of 17 dark tales by the masterful writer, Shirley Jackson. They are designed to inspire unease and to unsettle. They are wide ranging in subject matter and each is a worthy read. The author has a gifted writing style that transports the reader to surprising and unexpected places. I particularly enjoyed The Good Wife, Paranoia and The Beautiful Stranger. There were occasions I wanted a little more depth and length to a story. A perfect collection for those who enjoy

My life goal is to be a character in a Shirley Jackson story.

In some of these seventeen stories by Shirley Jackson, the usual takes a strange turn: a wife finds her thoughts taking unexpected directions; a schoolgirl visits a friends manor house with unending rooms; an older couple decides to stay a few weeks longer in their summer cottage and find life out of season has some surprises for them. In other stories, the unusual takes a stranger turn: an act of kindness surprises a poison pen letter writer; a bride accepts her unusual fate; a young girl tries