It used to be a source of wonder that Shirley Jackson, author of “The Lottery,” “The Haunting of Hill House” and other horrifying tales, was, in her personal life, a housewife with an academic husband ...
With stories like “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson was one of the great horror authors of the 20th century. In 2012, Ruth Franklin wrote a biography of the writer called ...