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We Have Always Lived in the CastleNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1962
Gothic, about loneliness.
“A young woman lives with her older sister and sickly uncle in their old family house, after a mysterious tragedy turns the townsfolk against them.”
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The Haunting of Hill HouseNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1959
Gothic and ghost stories, dark in tone.
The Bird's NestNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1954
Literary & general and psychological horror, eerie in tone, about madness and identity, set in mid 20th century and north america.
“The plot concerns a young woman, Elizabeth Richmond, with multiple personality disorder.”
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Conjure WifeNovel
Fritz Leiberstandalone novel1943
Tense in tone, about witches and gender and society, set in our world.
“Under the rational overlay of 20th-century civilization this sickly growth, uncultivated, unsuspected, still manages to propagate itself.”
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HangsamanNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1951
Gothic, dark in tone, about coming of age and loneliness.
“The second of Jackson's published novels, Hangsaman is a bildungsroman centering on lonely college freshman Natalie Waite, who descends into madness after enrolling in a liberal arts college.”
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PeaceNovel
Gene Wolfestandalone novel1975
Ghost stories, reflective in tone.