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Shirley Jackson

September 2023

  • THE HAUNTING [BR 1963]<br>THE HAUNTING (BR 1963) JULIE HARRIS

    The Haunting at 60: is it still one of the scariest films ever made?

    Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg count the slow-burn 1963 horror as one of the greatest of all time but it wasn’t always seen as a classic

April 2023

  • In the beginning …

    Top 10s
    Top 10 first lines in fiction

    The first words of a story have to do a lot of work in snaring the reader. Novelist Liz Nugent considers some of her favourites

October 2022

  • Stephen King at home in Maine, US.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 horror short stories

    With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in

June 2022

  • Shirley Jackson.

    Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published

    Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the Strand

May 2022

  • ‘A pure adrenaline rush in literary form’: PD Smith on American Tabloid by James Ellroy.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

    Poet Dean Atta, writer and critic PD Smith and Guardian readers Jessica and Brenda discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

October 2021

  • Arsenic and Old LAce

    Cultural prescription
    Want horror for Halloween? Critics pick music, books, games and more to help

  • Spacecraft Progress orbiting the space.<br>HFD6JT Spacecraft Progress orbiting the space.

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

August 2021

  • Shirley Jackson Laurence Hyman Composite.

    ‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters

    In a revealing new book, the under-appreciated author’s son shows a new side to his misunderstood mother

March 2021

  • Sebastian Stan and Alexandra Daddario in the 2019 film version of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels set in villages

    From Chinua Achebe to Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson, these books play with our assumptions about small communities

January 2021

  • Elisabeth Moss in Shirley (2020).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films about writers

    Elisabeth Moss’s fevered turn as American gothic novelist Shirley Jackson is the latest chapter in cinema’s tireless quest to dramatise the literary life

December 2020

  • Shirley Jackson, the author of "The Road Through the Wall", is seen in this April 16, 1951 photo. (AP Photo)

    Unseen Shirley Jackson story to be published

    Adventure on a Bad Night, in which a shopping trip unpicks layers of prejudice, was written in 1944 and rediscovered by the son of a writer fascinated by ‘the possibility of evil’

October 2020

  • Elisabeth Moss, left, and Odessa Young in Shirley

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Shirley review – Elisabeth Moss gets under a horror writer's skin

    Moss bristles with malevolence as a fictionalised version of Shirley Jackson but the film’s early menace fizzles out

June 2020

  • Elle Fanning in The Great Elisabeth Moss in Shirley Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson

    History remixed: the rise of the anachronistic female lead

  • Shirley poster

    'She puts you into a dream': inside a thrilling film about Shirley Jackson

February 2020

  • a girl looks at illuminated light sculptures during the Alice in Winterland show at Lightwater Valley, North Yorkshire.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about imaginary friends

    From Lewis Carroll to Vladimir Nabokov and Shirley Jackson, the best of these stories combine fantasy with very real psychology

January 2020

  • Elisabeth Moss and Odessa Young in Shirley

    First look review
    Shirley review – Elisabeth Moss anchors darkly compelling literary psychodrama

    A perversely entertaining take on a brief period of Shirley Jackson’s life gives the star one of her most daring roles to date

June 2019

  • JUNE 2019_LONDON; Sian Cain is the Guardian’s books site editor. (Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Inside the Guardian
    Guardian Books: 'You can tell a lot about a country by how it treats its libraries'

    The books site editor on the challenges facing publishers, and who she would invite to her dream dinner party

October 2018

  • The Haunting of Hill House.

    Agoraphobia and an unhappy marriage: the real horror behind The Haunting of Hill House

  • Shirley Jackson, the author of "The Road Through the Wall", is seen in this April 16, 1951 photo. (AP Photo)

    'Textbook terror': How The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror's rules

October 2017

  • Andrew Michael Hurley Author Author of the book 'The Loney' London Photograph by David Levene 10/5/16

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Halloween reading with Andrew Michael Hurley – books podcast

    As nights grow darker, we share our favourite horror novels and ghostly tales – and the author of The Loney joins us to talk about his eerie new novel
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