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The stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to her shocking explorations of the human psyche. The tales range, chronologically, from the writings of her college days and residence in Greenwich Village i… more

Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba.  When questioned about their a… more

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. “Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses. This collection, the onl… more

Occultation’s eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore sturgeon and Shirley Jackson award-nominated story “The Forest” and Shirley Jackson award nominee “The Lagerstatte.”

The Haunting of Hill House Study Guide consists of approx. 21 pages of summaries and analysis on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Ch… more

The elevator in Greg Brennan’s new apartment building has a mind of its own. An evil mind. And it really hates Greg.The Elevator is a contemporary ghost story in the classic style of writers like Shirley Jackson. This 10,000 word novella ma… more

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What happens when you discover an old CD with a video of on a ex on it?How do you feel? What should you do?This short story (very short at just under a thousand words), deals with this unique to the digital age problem. Worse and more revea… more

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemor… more

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, DEATH IN SPRING is one of Mercè Rodoreda’s most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless to… more

HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural horror: Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice. Once caught in its pages, there’s no escaping Longfellow’s terrible tale. Weeks ago, she wa… more

In his second collection of short fiction, Bruce Jones describes worlds in which things are askew, not quite right: a prostitute falls in love with a werewolf; a man loses his wife on a shopping trip and discovers that he’s lost an entire l… more

Featuring the award-winning dark short story “The Field,” about murder and consequence, which took first place in the 2002 Spring Contest Issue of The Harvard Advocate, comes a collection that bends through horror and humor, the real and th… more

Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best AnthologyIn 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he per… more

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Study Guide consists of approx. 35 pages of summaries and analysis on We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries… more

The Ever is the classic haunted house story represented by true horror of the 21st century. It attacks the reader’s personal fears, allowing each chapter to generate a new terror and a new adversity for our readers to fight. The Marks house… more

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Nroman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”Halloween, 1963. They c… more

The Other Room is a collection of weird horror fiction, containing twelve stories of the uncanny and the surreal. A naive student finds that his crumbling bedsit can be as haunted as any Gothic mansion.A man stumbles across another world wh… more

“Chick Bassist is utterly savage. Lockhart’s style waxes poetic as a modern Beat giving us a glimpse into Rock & Roll hell.” - Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Occultation and The CroningErin Locke, the Queen of Rock, w… more

It’s the event of the winter season. Rosemary and Harold are going away and their family and friends gather together to say farewell. But the evening doesn’t end in quite the way they had anticipated. Ever quirky and surprising, Patrice Fit… more