A review by drewsof
Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel by Shirley Jackson

4.0

It's hard to give this a proper rating -- on the one hand, we have the early beginnings of a novel that I desperately wish I could read; on the other, we have an assemblage of stories, some I already knew and some previously-uncollected. The novel has a hell of a hook and, as you might've guessed, I'm wrecked that Jackson died before she could really get into it. The stories are, well, they're Jackson stories and they're great. I particularly enjoyed the essay/lecture that leads into THE LOTTERY at the end of the book. But this is, ultimately, ephemera for the completists.