A marvelous elucidation of life a story full of craft and full of mystery The New York Times Book Review
A witch s brew of eerie power and startling novelty The New York Times
I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. George Saunders
Jackson s novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible. Marlon James
Shirley Jackson (1919 1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.