Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and  haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved  disappearance of a female college student.
'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'  Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch
Natalie  Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is  increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of  adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will  spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the  manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity  gradually crumbles.
This edition includes a Foreword by Francine Prose.
Shirley  Jackson's chilling tales have the   power to unsettle and  terrify unlike any other. She was born in   California in 1916. When her  short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker    in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has    since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her    first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.
'An amazing writer'  Neil Gaiman
'The  world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... It is a place  where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and  clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a  turn for the worse' A. M. Homes
'Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders' Dorothy Parker
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