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Come Along with Me [story collection] Popular Library paperback #445-01507-075, 1968 – This collection contains the portion of the novel Come Along with Me that Jackson had completed at the time of her death in 1965, plus 16 short stories, including The Lottery, The Beautiful Stranger, The Summer People, A Visit, The Rock, The Bus, A Day in the Jungle, Pajama Party, The Night We All Had Grippe, Tootie in Peonage, and more, plus three literary lectures. [G – ] $3.49 | ||||
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The Haunting of Hill House
[horror, gothic, ghost story] Popular Library paperback, first printing, June 1962
(movie tie-in edition) – Dr. Montague, an investigator
of psychic disturbances, extends an invitation to three young people to
join him at Hill House, whose tragic history has made it unfit for human
habitation.
During the
days and nights to follow there are doors that close, drafts that chill,
banging and scurrying noises, and writing on the walls.
[VG]
$7.49
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The Haunting of Hill House
[horror, gothic, ghost story] Popular Library
paperback, March 1977 – this is the spellbinding novel that became the
hit motion picture The Haunting starring Julie Harris, Claire
Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn. A tale of subtle, psychological
terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house
stories of the ages. The four visitors at Hill House are unaware that
the mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
[G] $4.99 |
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Life Among the
Savages
[autobiography, memoir] Scholastic paperback #TK1298, first printing, September
1968 – in the author’s words this book is “a disrespectful memoir of my
children,” woven together from a series of stories that appeared in
mainstream American magazines including Good Housekeeping and
Women’s Day in the early 1950s. The “savages” of the title are
Jackson’s four children.
The story is continued in
Raising Demons.
[VG]
$5.99
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Lizzie [fiction, psychology] Signet paperback #S1400, first printing, April 1957 – first published as The Bird’s Nest in 1954, this is the story of a woman with multiple personality disorder. Pretty, 23-year-old Elizabeth Richmond develops separate and warring personalities when she is confronted by harsh realities she cannot face – her mother’s strange death and a nightmare interlude with her mother’s lover. The book was the basis for the 1957 film Lizzie starring Eleanor Parker. [G] $4.99 | ||||
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The Lottery
[fantasy, horror, short stories] Avon paperback #S197,
3rd printing, Nov. 1965 – a collection of 25 stories first published
1943-48, including
The Lottery,
The Demon Lover, Like Mother Used to Make, Trial by Combat, The Witch,
The Renegade, The Dummy, The Intoxicated, The Villager, Afternoon in
Linen, Flower Garden, Colloquy, Elizabeth, A Fine Old Firm, Seven Types
of Ambiguity, Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors, and others.
[VG]
$9.99 |
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Raising Demons [autobiography, memoir] Ballantine paperback #342K, 1959 – the continuing story of child-raising in 1950s America, a sequel to Life Among the Savages. The four “savages” are rapidly growing into “demons” as the family expands into a new suburban house, keeping their parents embroiled in one hilarious domestic crisis after another – the picture of the rich and varied day-to-day living of an unusual but not really so different American family. [G+] $4.99 | ||||
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The Sundial
[gothic, horror, occult] Ace Star paperback #K-166,
1st printing, 1962 – An odd assortment of kin and hangers-on gather in a
gothic mansion as, initially drawn by the lure of the family fortune,
they get drawn into a sort of group apocalyptic psychosis. They end up
burning an extensive library of books to make room for survival supplies
as they await the mysterious catastrophe revealed by visions and
confirmed by apparently supernatural events.
[VG]
$9.99 |
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The Sundial
[gothic, horror, occult] Ace paperback #H-96,
1968 – “There is an odd fascination to this peculiar tale – I found
myself more and more enthralled and by the time the fatal last day in
August came, with darkness and rising wind, I was entirely spellbound.”
– Brattleboro Daily Informer; “...a highly entertaining,
surprisingly developed tale, good for hours of enjoyment, and quite
different.” – Montgomery Advertiser
[VG]
$5.99 |
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We Have Always
Lived in the Castle
[gothic, psychological suspense] Popular Library paperback #01509,
1972 – a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and
possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin
arrives at their estate. Alone since four members of the family died of
arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their
days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears.
[VG]
$5.99 |
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