• The Best Shirley Jackson Books - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • The Best Shirley Jackson Books - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  • The Best Shirley Jackson Books - The Lottery, and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  • The Best Shirley Jackson Books - The Letters of Shirley Jackson edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman
  • The Best Shirley Jackson Books - Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

The Best Shirley Jackson Books, recommended by Joan Passey

Shirley Jackson, the 20th-century horror author, has had a remarkable resurgence in popularity in recent years, with a series of screen adaptations bringing her writing to a new audience. Joan Passey, an academic at Bristol University and co-editor of an upcoming collection of essays on the ‘mother of horror’, selects five books that offer the best introduction to Shirley Jackson’s work.