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Author: shirley jackson

About the Author: Shirley Hardy Jackson was born in San Francisco, California, December 14, 1916, and died August 8, 1965. She is an American writer, best known for her work in the fields of horror and mystery. Over the course of her two-decade writing career, she has authored six novels, two memoirs, and over 200 short stories. She attended Syracuse University in New York, where she participated in the university’s literary journal and met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Heyman. The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1940, after Hyman began working as a literary critic, and Jackson began writing. After the publication of her first novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood in California, Jackson gained considerable public attention for her short story “The Lottery”, which illustrates the sinister underside of a rural American village. She continued to publish numerous short stories in magazines and literary magazines throughout the 1950s, some of which were collected and reissued in her 1953 memoir Life Among the Barbarians. In 1959, she published Ghosts of the Hill House, a supernatural horror novel seen by many as one of the Best ghost stories ever.

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Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were “nice” people — especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr Roberts, who found relief from the street’s unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction. It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.

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