Dark Tales - Hardcover

Jackson, Shirley

4.01

7,264 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241295424 ISBN 13: 9780241295427

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, 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 country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written ... No-one can touch her (Donna Tartt)

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable (A. M. Homes)

One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' (Paul Theroux)

An amazing writer (Neil Gaiman)

Dark Tales reveals a superior gothic writer ... Shirley Jackson's menacing gothic tales are a joy to rediscover (The Times)

An excellent primer for her short fiction (The Pool)

From the Back Cover:

'An odd thought crossed her mind: she would pick up the heavy glass ashtray and smash her husband over the head'

An ordinary commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, a loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and a concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer, in this collection of Shirley Jackson's finest, most deliciously dark tales. Here 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.

'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written ... No one can touch her' Donna Tartt

'One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses' Paul Theroux

'Shirley Jackson's menacing gothic tales are a joy' The Times

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.