The Summer People
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A couple who have spent the summer at their country place decide to stay on after the other summer visitors leave. As the season turns and the village grows quiet, the local people seem to watch them with increasing unease, and small signs suggest that the couple is being noticed in ways they do not understand. Shirley Jackson builds the tension slowly through ordinary conversations and everyday errands, so that the sense of something wrong grows out of the mundane. The story is brief but unsettling, leaving the reader to piece together what the villagers know.
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