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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson's brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.
Paul Tremblay is an author and editor of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
@stephenjfwhite She was inspired by Shirley Jackson's Merricat Blackwood from We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Film critic, novelist, screenwriter, translator, photographer, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer and chocolate.
@KerriArsenault Just in case no one has already suggested these... A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (ambiguous) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Retired Public Defender. Knows a little guitar. Trying to relearn bass. Married with cat. If I notice you paid for a blue check, I'll block you on principle.
Finally reading Shirley Jackson's early novels, and finding it fascinating the ways in which the prose is there but she just doesn't quite have the power that went into her masterpieces, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived In the Castle.
"A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty" --The New York Times
"I was thrilled by the genuine but meaningful strangeness of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle." --George Saunders
"Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it. Add to that one of the most brilliantly realized unreliable narrators in fiction and the book becomes irresistible." --Marlon James