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3 unusual facts about Shirley Jackson


Rockie Gardiner

Following graduation she worked as an editor of children's books at Doubleday Publishing where she worked with such well-known established writers such as Arthur Miller and Shirley Jackson.

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

Davey-Fitzpatrick recently acted, along with his parents, in a local short film The Lottery, an eleven-minute adaptation of Shirley Jackson's short story.

The Way of a Man with a Maid

Fragments of the story are read by one character to another in a pivotal scene of Shirley Jackson's novel Hangsaman (1951).


Cameo Theatre

Cameo Theatre featured adaptations from the short stories of Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, and others.

Daniel Gutstein

Gutstein has cited the poet Paul Celan as being a major source of inspiration, and credits a number of American poets and fiction writers such as Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Lyn Hejinian, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin, as favorites.

The Little Stranger

Peter Cannon in Publishers Weekly writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Hundreds of genre author entries are provided, including: William Beckford by E.F. Bleiler, Ambrose Bierce and Algernon Blackwood by Jack Sullivan, Ramsey Campbell by Robert Hadji, Robert W. Chambers by T. E. D. Klein, James Herbert by Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson by Sullivan, Stephen King by Don Herron, Arthur Machen by Klein, Ann Radcliffe by Devendra P. Varma, and Peter Straub by Patricia Skarda.

Woman's Home Companion

Among the contributors to the magazine were editor Gene Gauntier, and authors Temple Bailey, Ellis Parker Butler, Rachel Carson, Arthur Guiterman, Shirley Jackson, Anita Loos, Neysa McMein, Kathleen Norris, Sylvia Schur, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, and P. G. Wodehouse.


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