Jackson, Shirley

Four believers of the paranormal come to the old abandoned mansion including an anthropologist who wants to conduct an unusual research project.

A collection of short stories by twentieth-century American author Shirley Jackson, including her most famous work, "The Lottery.".

"The road through the wall reveals the hatreds and crimes hidden behind a California suburb's picture-perfect facades. Hangsaman is a psychological thriller in which a college student's loneliness takes a sinister turn. In the Bird's nest, a young office worker's multiple personalities for predominance. And in the Sundial, ... an eccentric clan sheltering at home makes increasingly deranged preparations for the apocalypse"--Back of cover of dust jacket.

A collection of essays and short stories by Shirley Jackson.