![]() When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and casual cruelty have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. ![]() ![]() The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. ![]() The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle.Įlizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. ![]()
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