Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
9 best books like Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson (Judy Oppenheimer): Bunny, Life Among the Savages, The Bone Garden, The Monster of Elendhaven, Lady Audley's Secret, The Pumpkin Eater, The Magic of Shirley Jackson, A House at the Bottom of a Lake, The Bird's Nest
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0140267670 |
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper...
| Author | Tess Gerritsen |
| ISBN | 0593057775 |
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this...
The Monster of Elendhaven
| Author | Jennifer Giesbrecht |
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats....
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192835203 |
whatever could be Lady Audley's secret? could it be... murder? miscegenation? malfeasance? misdirected malevolence ending in tears, tragedy, and general tawdriness? an assumed identity? flatulence? that not-so-fresh feeling? bigamy? bigotry? child abuse? child abandonment? une affaire...
| Author | Penelope Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0747518874 |
4.5 stars rounded up
I must admit I haven’t read anything by Mortimer before and on the evidence of this book I should have. It is about a woman in a downward spiral and is an acerbic and humorous (in a very bleak way) comment on marriage, gender relations and being a woman being controlled by men (husbands...
The Magic of Shirley Jackson
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0374651000 |
This Kindle book was a bargain - a collection consisting of eleven short stories, and three novels, all for six and change (dollars, that is)
Actually, in this review I'm only rating the first part, the short stories. I will add the individual novels to my shelves and rate them separately.
The...
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes.
It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water’s surface that changes their lives forever.
It’s...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 1567230644 |
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But...
