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»Med sin skarpa blick på den mänskliga naturen, sin insikt i dess tilltrasslade insida och opålitliga varseblivning, lyckas hon skrämmas på riktigt.« Jenny Aschenbrenner, Svenska dagbladet »En av 1900-talets viktigaste skräckromaner.« Stephen King...

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Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ...

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Ett mästerverk av gotisk spänning.«¿ |¿ Joyce Carol Oates »En magnifik roman.« | The New York Times Book Review En gång var de sju i familjen Blackwood. Men en dödlig dos arsenik fann vägen till familjens sockerskål. Den enda som undvek sockret ti...

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Mästerliga noveller för första gången i svensk översättning »Suverän novellsamling.« Yukiko Duke, Vi läser »Mycket välkomponerade och spännande noveller.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Jonas Herrlin, BTJ »Shirley Jackson har en häpnadsväckande förmåga att illus...

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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most t...

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A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson's chilling tale of power and fear Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estat...

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'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister ...

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The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with ...

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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 Tar...

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»Lotteriet« är en novell av Shirley Jackson, ursprungligen publicerad 1949. I översättning av Helena Fagertun. SHIRLEY JACKSON [1916-1965] är en av världslitteraturens mest inflytelserika författare i skräckgenren. Hon föddes i San Francisco, men ...

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Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three compani...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Class...

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»Ett mästerverk av gotisk spänning.« Joyce Carol Oates En gång var de sju i familjen Blackwood. Men en dödlig dos arsenik fann vägen till familjens sockerskål. Den enda som undvek sockret till bären var äldsta systern Constance. Hon misstänktes fö...

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A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the m...

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'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth centu...

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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most te...

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'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth centur...

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Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It i...

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A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a smal...

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' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease. Penguin Modern: fi...

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'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy' Amy...

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»Med sin skarpa blick på den mänskliga naturen, sin insikt i dess tilltrasslade insida och opålitliga varseblivning, lyckas hon skrämmas på riktigt.« Jenny Aschenbrenner, Svenska dagbladet »En av 1900-talets viktigaste skräckromaner.« Stephen King...

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