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Well, this is exciting: new Doctor Who novel Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box.

#DoctorWho #ShirleyJackson #SFF #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #KalynnBayron

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-an-exclusive-excerpt-from-new-fifteenth-doctor-novel-shirley-jackson-and-the?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwK5IzpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp1180WMjR5e9ceGE5C8zJCn7SL4HfBWchH8oiBOz8wF1of6xjSHgPiC2bm1w_aem_gkV0y6aXCK0fmqX5D1HXiA

Teaching Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948, 1st published in The New Yorker) today. Reread it if you have a moment because its rendering of the "banality of evil" (Arendt) very much speaks to our moment. How cruelty becomes formalized, accepted, and practiced. Profoundly resonant.

https://turtletalk.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/the-lottery.pdf

#ShirleyJackson
#HannahArendt
#Fascism
#Literature

I finished “The Letters of Shirley Jackson” — and what an engrossing read. Covering 25 years of her life, and comprised of letters to husband, parent, agents, fans, herself & others, it shows us a woman of immense talent coming into her own as the author of “The Haunting of Hillhouse” & other modern gothic classics — while dealing with illness, self doubt, a philandering husband, and too many cats. *Recommended*

#Bookstodon #ShirleyJackson

Hardcover of The Letters of Shirley Jackson

I've been hella slumping with my reading, but I'm okay with it. With our big move steadily getting closer and closer, I simply have other things on my mind, and reading is less of a priority. I have a hard time focusing on long stories atm, and can't really read for longer periods at a time, so decided to go with a shorter story this time. Love Shirley Jackson, and so far loving this as well! She's just so good at writing seemingly very normal scenes that simultaneously have this eerie, upsetting, somewhat off-putting atmosphere.

#shirleyjackson #readingslump #wehavealwayslivedinthecastle #horror #booklover #gothichorror

It’s a dumpster fire of a day in all directions, and thus a weird time to share anything positive, but I have now turned in my contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of #ShirleyJackson. So… woot! 🖊️ 📖 #Books #Gothic #Academic

Pictured is a shadowed photo of a candle reflecting light onto a carving of a winged skull (inspired by an old New England headstone). In the corner is an ebook reader showing the cover of Shirley Jackson’s novel Hangsaman.

“It’s all part of the same thing. It is Censorship or Repression, or Dictatorship, or Reaction, or whatever you want to call it. It is the stuff Fascism fattens on.”

- Shirley Jackson, while a student at Syracuse University in the 1939-1940 school year, writing in defense of #FreeSpeech on campus in the student-created magazine Spectre (quoted in Private Demons: The Life of #ShirleyJackson) #Relevant

“Lots of people thought it was a bad time to try to start anything new because there was so much that was more important going on outside. But we think that maybe the students have a little something to say about what’s going on and if the students have something to say any time is a good time to let them say it.”

- Shirley Jackson, when a student at Syracuse University in 1939, writing in the controversial student-created magazine Spectre (quoted in Private Demons: The Life of #ShirleyJackson) #Relevant #FreeSpeech

Yesterday was International Women's Rights Day.✊

To pursue, I suggest you discover, or rediscover, the works of Shirley Jackson, author known for her horror writings who took much of her inspiration from her housewife condition. One of her best-known works is ‘The Hauting of Hill House’.

I had the pleasure of illustrating one of her short stories : "The Mouse" for Le bélial in Bifrost #101, dedicated to the author.

#ShirleyJackson #Horror #Art #MastoArt #Illustration #Drawing #LeBélial

Anglais :
Portrait of a woman with long, smooth hair, framed from head to knees. She is wearing a long, short-sleeved dress with a blood splatter. Her right hand rests on her pelvis and her left hand holds a sheet of white paper. Her face is inexpressive, turned to her left, out of frame. There are no backgrounds, but the background is filled with a ray of light crossing the image diagonally from the top left corner, illuminating the figure.

Français :
Portrait d'une femme au cheveux long et lisse, cadré de la tête jusqu'aux genoux. Elle porte une longue robe à manches courtes comportant une éclaboussure de sang. Sa main droite est posée sur son bassin et sa main gauche tien une feuille de papier blanc. Son visage est inexpressif et tourné vers sa gauche, hors du cadre. Il n'y a pas de décors, mais le fond de l'image est rempli d'un rayon de lumière traversant l'image en diagonale depuis le coin supérieur gauche et éclairant le personnage.

Here’s a new book I’m looking forward to devouring with relish.
#ShirleyJackson #PatriciaHighsmith #LeighBrackett #Gender #Genre #AshleyLawson #Books #Bookstodon

Pictured is the book On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson. The black-and-white cover art shows a partially opened door leading to a shadowed staircase with a key dangling from a string in the corner.

#AmReading #BooksOf2025 #AHauntingOnTheHill #ElizabethHand #TheHauntingOfHillHouse #ShirleyJackson

I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?

There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?

It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.

#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing

https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/

A young woman is sitting in a chair reading a story which has made her nervous. Source: Wellcome Images

A watercolour painting of Strawberry Hill House.

Victor Frankenstein looks on with disgust at his creation.

https://open.substack.com/pub/benjamindreyer/p/shirley-and-me?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #ShirleyJackson #Copyediting #Bookstodon

"Shirley Jackson and Daemonic Patriarchy"
#BooksNCats
#ShirleyJackson
#TheDemonLover #TheLottery
#Misogyny #Witchcraft
#BooksAndCats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXqrs_z6XYY&list=TLPQMTUxMjIwMjRcBmmSOa0Ylg&index=4&ab_channel=Books%27n%27Cats

The House of Representatives: A sequel to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/21/of-hate-maga-in-congress-wage-harassment-campaign-against-trans-colleague/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Fascism
#ShirleyJackson

The House of Representatives: A sequel to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/21/of-hate-maga-in-congress-wage-harassment-campaign-against-trans-colleague/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Fascism
#ShirleyJackson

The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments. #111Words #TheTrolleyProblem #PhilippaFoot #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ThoughtExperiments #Allegory #AlbertEinstein #ErwinSchrödinger #TheGoodPlace #Literature #Philosophy #Physics #Television https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-trolley-problem-shirley-jacksons.html

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 -

Dreamlike interior dialogue which supplied its own sublimated horror, but in contrast to the horror without?

https://buff.ly/4fnw7nv

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #shirleyjackson #wehavealwayslivedinthecastle

Since this is the perfect opportunity to share, please enjoy these pics of my THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE collection.

(I usually share my *whole* Shirley Jackson collection on her birthday 🖤

#ShirleyJackson #TheHauntingOfHillHouse #BookBirthday @bookstodon #horror #GhostStory #books #HorrorBooks

Various editions of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

Various editions of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson on a shelf with a veiled woman statue and a cup of stars

💙📚 Happy Birthday to the greatest Haunted House novel ever:

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, by the GOAT Shirley Jackson -
first published on Oct 16, 1959.

Journeys
end
in
lovers
meeting...

#ShirleyJackson #TheHauntingOfHillHouse #BookBirthday @bookstodon #horror #GhostStory #books #HorrorBooks

The Corgi edition of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html

#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson

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