Shirley Jackson

172 books

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Bram Stoker, Leslie Pockell, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time

Bram Stoker, Leslie Pockell, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

400 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century by Otto Penzler, Tony Hillerman

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

The Best American Mystery Stories #1900-1999

Otto Penzler, Tony Hillerman

813 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

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The Best American Short Stories 1964 by Martha Foley, David Burnett

The Best American Short Stories 1964

The Best American Short Stories

Martha Foley, David Burnett

416 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

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Charles by Shirley Jackson

Charles

Shirley Jackson

32 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories by Robert M. Coates, Charles G. Finney, Oliver La Farge, E.B. White, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Henry Kuttner, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl, John S. Sharnik, James H. Schmitz, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories

Robert M. Coates, Charles G. Finney, Oliver La Farge, E.B. White, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Henry Kuttner, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl, John S. Sharnik, James H. Schmitz, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

210 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

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Collected Short Stories by Shirley Jackson

Collected Short Stories

Shirley Jackson

104 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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The Dark Descent by John Collier, David G. Hartwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury

The Dark Descent

The Dark Descent #1-3

John Collier, David G. Hartwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury

1011 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson

208 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers by John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers

John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

452 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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The Folio Book of Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, E.F. Benson, Kathryn Hughes, Penelope Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, A.M. Burrage, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Charles Dickens, F. Marion Crawford, George Mackay Brown, A.S. Byatt, R H Benson, E.G. Swain, William Fryer Harvey, David McConochie, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson

The Folio Book of Ghost Stories

Elizabeth Bowen, E.F. Benson, Kathryn Hughes, Penelope Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, A.M. Burrage, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Charles Dickens, F. Marion Crawford, George Mackay Brown, A.S. Byatt, R H Benson, E.G. Swain, William Fryer Harvey, David McConochie, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson

296 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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