{"id":2398,"date":"2026-10-13T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:18:32","slug":"shirley-jackson-queen-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2026\/10\/13\/shirley-jackson-queen-of-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Jackson: Queen of Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spooky season is here and we’re celebrating by highlighting Shirley Jackson, a classic horror and mystery author and one of my personal favorites. Jackson’s work was published throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s until her death in 1965. She lead a difficult adult life; her husband was apparently quite horrible. She is a master of slowly building dread. I particularly love The Haunting of Hill House, which has been adapted for the screen more than once.<\/p>\n

We have a few of Shirley Jackson’s books and short stories available here at the library – browse them below:<\/p>\n

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\nNovels and stories : The lottery, The haunting of Hill House, We have always lived in the castle, other stories and sketches<\/a> by Shirley Jackson. This collection includes several of Shirley Jackson’s classic stories. This is a great way to dive right into the Shirley Jackson’s most well known work.<\/p>\n

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\nThe sundial<\/a> by Shirley Jackson is a novel about a wealthy family who believes they have been chosen to survive through the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

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\nThe bird’s nest<\/a> by Shirley Jackson follows a woman with multiple personality disorder.<\/p>\n

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\nCome along with me; part of a novel, sixteen stories, and three lectures<\/a> by Shirley Jackson, edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Come Along With Me was a novel that\u00a0 Jackson began the year before she passed away and never finished. This collection was released posthumously by her husband.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Shirley Jackson’s writing and life, with these books:<\/p>\n

Shirley Jackson<\/a> by Lenemaja Friedman<\/p>\n

Shirley Jackson : a study of the short fiction<\/a> by Joan Wylie Hall.<\/p>\n

Private demons : the life of Shirley Jackson<\/a> by Judy Oppenheimer<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, as always, don’t hesitate to ask us<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spooky season is here and we’re celebrating by highlighting Shirley Jackson, a classic horror and mystery author and one of my personal favorites. Jackson’s work was published throughout the 1940s, 50s and 60s until her death in 1965. She lead a difficult adult life; her husband was apparently quite horrible. She is a master of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2434,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}