Shirley Jackson
22) The lottery
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Language
English
Description
The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...
25) The Haunting
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore the horrors of the unseen and the unexplained.
27) 9 magic wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A child meets a magician who grants eight wonderfully fantastic wishes, with one wish left over.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
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." --
31) The haunting
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A professor lures three subjects to a mysterious mansion for an experiment which turns into a nightmare as the secrets of Hill House are revealed in this supernatural thriller.
32) The haunting
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
No one lives in the 90-year-old Hill House. Or so it seems. But come in. Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve each viewer.
35) Whodunit?
Series
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning series of classic and contemporary fiction performed by acclaimed actors.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.
Series
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...
39) Brave new worlds
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.
Author
Publisher
Spoken Ink
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This short story collection has the very best in unpredictable endings. Prize-winning authors from Chekhov to Julian Barnes tellstories full of hermits, sacred bogs, werewolves, divine ferrets, and the unexpected.
