| The Works of Shirley Jackson | Biography Critisism Review Works |
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Shirley Jackson Novels The Bird’s Nest. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1954. The Hangsaman. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1950. The Haunting of Hill House. New York: Viking,1959. The Road Through the Wall. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1948. The Sundial. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1958. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. New York: Viking, 1962. |
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Collected Works of Shirley Jackson Come Along With Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures. Ed. by Stanely Edgar Hyman. New York: Viking, 1968. Just an Ordinary Day, Ed. by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. New York: Bantam, 1995. This collection contains 54 stories, some that were unpublished, the others simply uncollected. They were found in the family’s barn in VT with 49 other stories that have yet to be published. The Lottery and Other Stories, New York: Farrar, Straus, 1949 The Magic of Shirley Jackson, Ed. by Stanley Edgar Hyman. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1966. Shirley Jackson Memoirs Life Among the Savages. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1953. Raising Demons. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1957. Shirley Jackson's Children's Works The Bad Children: A Musical in One Act for Bad Children. Music by Allan Jay Friedman. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1959. Famous Sally. Illustrated by Charles B. Slackman. New York: Harlin Quist, 1966. The Witchcraft of Salem Village. New York: Random House, 1956. Children’s non-fiction. 9 Magic Wishes. Illustrated by Lorraine Fox. A Modern Masters Book for Children. New York: Crowell-Collier, 1963. |
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Original Publications of Shirley Jackson Short Stories "About Two Nice People," Ladies Home Journal, July 1951. "Account Closed," Good Housekeeping, April 1950. "After You, My Dear Alphonse." New Yorker, Jan 1943. "Afternoon in Linen." New Yorker, Sept 4, 1943. "All the Girls Were Dancing," Collier’s, Nov 11, 1950. "All She Said Was Yes," Vogue, Nov 1, 1962. "Alone in a Den of Cubs," Woman’s Day, Dec 1953. "Aunt Gertrude," Harper’s, April 1954. "The Bakery." Peacock Alley, Nov 1944. "Birthday Party." Vogue, 1 Jan 1963. "The Box." Woman’s Home Companion, Nov 1952. "Bulletin," Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Mar 1954. "Call Me Ishmael." Spectre, Fall 1939 v1 n1. "A Cauliflower in Her Hair." Mademoiselle, Dec 1944. "Charles," Mademoiselle, July 1948. "The Clothespin Dolls." Woman’s Day, Mar 1953. "Colloquy." New Yorker, Aug 5, 1944. "Come Dance with Me in Ireland." New Yorker, May 15, 1943. "Concerning…Tomorrow." Syracusan, Mar 1939 v4 n6. "The Daemon Lover ['The Phantom Lover']," Woman's Home Companion, Feb 1949. "Daughter, Come Home." Charm, May 1944. "Day of Glory." Woman’s Day, Feb 1953. "Don’t Tell Daddy." Woman’s Home Companion, Feb 1954. "Every Boy Should Learn to Play the Trumpet." Woman’s Home Companion, Oct 1956. "Family Magician." Woman’s Home Companion, Sept 1949. "A Fine Old Firm." New Yorker, Mar 4, 1944. "The First Car is the Hardest." Harper’s, Feb 1952. "The Friends." Charm, Nov 1953. "The Gift." Charm, Dec 1944. "A Great Voice Stilled," Playboy, Mar 1960. "Had We but World Enough." Spectre, Spring 1940 v1 n3. "Happy Birthday to Baby." Charm, Nov 1952. "Home." Ladies Home Journal, Aug 1965. "The Homecoming." Charm, April 1945. "The House." Woman’s Day, May 1952. ”An International Incident.” New Yorker, Sept 12, 1943. "The Island." New Mexico Quarterly Review, 1950 v3. ”It Isn’t the Money.” New Yorker, Aug 25, 1945. "It’s Only a Game." Harper’s, May 1956. "Journey with a Lady." Harper’s, July 1952. "Liaison a la Cockroach." Syracusan, April 1939 v4 n7. "Little Dog Lost." Charm, Oct 1943. "A Little Magic." Woman’s Home Companion, Jan 1956. "Little Old Lady." Mademoiselle, Sept 1944. "The Lottery." New Yorker, June 26, 1948. "Louisa, Please." Ladies’ Home Journal, May 1960. "The Lovely Night." Collier’s, 8 April 1950. "Lucky to Get Away." Woman’s Day, Aug 1953. "Men with Their Big Shoes," Yale Review, Mar 1947. "The Missing Girl," Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 1957. "Monday Morning." Woman’s Home Companion, Nov 1951. "The Most Wonderful Thing." Good Housekeeping, June 1952. "Mother is a Fortune Hunter." Woman’s Home Companion, May 1954. "Mrs. Melville Makes a Purchase." Charm, Oct 1951. "My Friend." Syracusan, Dec 1938 v4 n4. "My Life in Cats." Spectre, Summer 1940 v1 n4. "My Life with R.H. Macy." New Republic, 22 Dec 1941. "My Son and the Bully." Good Housekeeping, Oct 1949. "Nice Day for a Baby." Woman’s Home Companion, July 1952. "Night We All Had Grippe." Harper’s, Jan 1952. "Nothing to Worry About." Charm, July 1953. "The Omen," Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar 1958. "On the House." New Yorker, Oct 30, 1943. "One Last Chance to Call." McCall’s, April 1956. "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts," Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan 1955. "The Order of Charlotte’s Going." Charm, July 1954. "Pillar of Salt" Mademoiselle, Oct 1948. "The Possibility of Evil," The Saturday Evening Post, Dec 18, 1965. "Queen of the May." McCall’s, April 1955. "The Renegade," Harper's, Nov 1949. "Root of Evil." Fantastic, March-April 1953. "The Second Mrs. Ellenoy." Reader’s Digest, July 1953. "Seven Types of Ambiguity," Story, 1943. "Shopping Trip." Woman’s Home Companion, June 1953. "The Sneaker Crisis." Woman’s Day, Oct. 1956. "So Late on Sunday Morning." Woman’s Home Companion, Sept 1953. "The Strangers." Collier’s 10 May 1952. "Strangers in Town." Saturday Evening Post, 30 May 1959. "The Summer People," Charm, 1950. "The Third Baby’s the Easiest." Harper’s, May 1949. "The Tooth." The Hudson Review, 1949 v1 n4. "Trial by Combat." New Yorker, Dec 16, 1944. "The Villager," The American Mercury, Aug 1944. "Visions of Sugarplums." Woman’s Home Companion, Dec 1952. "When Things Get Dark." New Yorker, Dec 30, 1944. "Whistler’s Grandmother." New Yorker, May 5, 1945. "The Wishing Dime." Good Housekeeping, Sept 1949. "Worldly Goods." Woman’s Day, May 1953. "Y and I." Syracusan, Oct 1938 v4 n2. "Y and I and the Ouija Board." Suyracusan, Nov 1938 v4 n3. |
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Shirley Jackson Essays "The Case for Dinner-Table Silence." Good Housekeeping, March 1960. "Comment" (upon the death of Leonard Brown [1904-1960]. Syracusan, March 1960 v10 n3. "Experience and Fiction" (from Come Along with Me). The Writer, Jan 1969 v82 n1. "Fame." Writer, August, 1948. "Go Down, Faulkner (in the Throes of William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses)." In The Best of Bad Faulkner, ed. by Dean Faulkner Wells. San Diego: Harcourt, 1991. "How to Enjoy a Family Quarrel." McCall’s, Sept 1957. "Karen’s Complaint." Good Housekeeping, November 1959. "The Life Romantic." Good Housekeeping, Dec 1949. "List Found in Coat Pocket." Vogue. 15 April 1953. "A Little Test for Mothers." Good Housekeeping, October 1960. "Look Ma, We’re Moving." Good Housekeeping, February 1952. "The Lost Kingdom of Oz." Reporter, 10 December 1959. "Mother, Honestly!" Good Housekeeping, September 1959. "No, I Don’t Want to Go to Europe." Saturday Evening Post, 6 June 1964. "On Being a Faculty Wife." Mademoiselle, Dec 1956. "Out of the Mouths of Babes." Good Housekeeping, July 1960. "The Pleasures and Periles of Dining Out with Children." McCall’s, March 1957. "Questions I Wish I’d Never Asked." Good Housekeeping, March 1961. "Santa Claus, I Love You." Good Housekeeping, December 1956. Special Delivery: A Useful Book for New Mothers, by Shirley Jackson et al. Boston: Little Brown, 1960 (republished as And Baby Makes Three. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960). "What I Want to Know Is, What Do Other People Cook With?" Good Housekeeping, July 1961. |
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