Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Hardie Jacksonwas an American author. She was a popular writer in her time, and her work has received increased attention from literary critics in recent years. She influenced Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 December 1916
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
gossip house towers
Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.
house atmosphere holiness
Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.
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Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
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We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.
long house clean
There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
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It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.
moving house watches
It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.
wall doors house
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
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They were worried that it might get stolen, so they kept it hidden in the bottom of the truck, ... When they refueled the truck, they went behind a building so no one would see them.
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Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah and Carry.
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The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
bridges games intellect
Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.
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No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
fear stranger poor
Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.