The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle

This collection gathers three of Shirley Jackson's most unsettling works. The title story depicts a small American village whose residents gather each June for a ritual they have long stopped questioning. The Haunting of Hill House follows a small group of people who agree to spend a summer in an isolated mansion with a reputation for terror, and the fragile young woman at the centre of the group begins to feel the house drawing her in. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is narrated by a young woman who lives with her sister and invalid uncle on the edge of their village, shunned since a family tragedy. Each story builds unease with precise, quiet prose.