| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | edt4 (110)
01/24/2006 | "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery" and even "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" (which I read when I was quite young) are undeniably creepy and effective stories. Indeed, they undoubtedly qualify as classics of horror (albeit of the "human" or psychological style of horror) literature. The bulk of Jackson's short stories that I have read, however, are mundane and meandering. Much more interesting is the biography on Jackson by Judy Oppenheimer entitled "Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson." A sad story, but illuminating and even inspiring, in its own odd way.
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 | btdt (0)
04/13/2004 | Absolute class.
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 | ponerse (0)
06/03/2003 | The Lottery is one of my favorite short stories!
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 | jai7321 (0)
01/27/2001 | Shirley Jackson helped blaze the trail for horror writers today. She plays on fears we don't even know we have until she brings them to our attention.
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| mrs_10053om (0)
08/22/2000 | I would like information on how she went to college. Her background growing up. What age she started writing.
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| nich1663om (0)
11/27/1999 | Shirley Jackson is by far the best horror writer to be found on your list. Her work includes such classics as THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE and "The Lottery." If literary merit is measured by the influence of an author on future generations of storytellers and by the length of time over which that author's work continues to be read, Jackson is unquestionably one of the "greats" of the genre -- and her work was not limited to horror.
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