Shirley Jackson

169 books

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Bram Stoker, Leslie Pockell, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time

Bram Stoker, Leslie Pockell, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

fiction classics horror mysterious reflective medium-paced

400 pages | first published 2020

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century by Pearl S. Buck, Sue Grafton, John D. MacDonald, Harlan Ellison, Margaret Millar, Ross Macdonald, O. Henry, Evan Hunter, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, James M. Cain, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Otto Penzler, Frederick Irving Anderson, Ben Ray Redman, Susan Glaspell, Tom Franklin, Brendan DuBois, Lawrence Block, Damon Runyon, Robert L. Fish, Jerome Weidman, Donald E. Westlake, Tony Hillerman, Cornell Woolrich, Stephen Greenleaf, James Crumley, John Steinbeck, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Joe Gores, Stanley Ellin, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Dennis Lehane, Michael Malone, Dashiell Hammett, Flannery O'Connor, Melville Davisson Post, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Jack Ritchie, Ring Lardner, Raymond Chandler, Harry Kemelman, Henry Slesar, Jacques Futrelle

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

The Best American Mystery Stories

Pearl S. Buck, Sue Grafton, John D. MacDonald, Harlan Ellison, Margaret Millar, Ross Macdonald, O. Henry, Evan Hunter, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, James M. Cain, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Otto Penzler, Frederick Irving Anderson, Ben Ray Redman, Susan Glaspell, Tom Franklin, Brendan DuBois, Lawrence Block, Damon Runyon, Robert L. Fish, Jerome Weidman, Donald E. Westlake, Tony Hillerman, Cornell Woolrich, Stephen Greenleaf, James Crumley, John Steinbeck, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Joe Gores, Stanley Ellin, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Dennis Lehane, Michael Malone, Dashiell Hammett, Flannery O'Connor, Melville Davisson Post, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Jack Ritchie, Ring Lardner, Raymond Chandler, Harry Kemelman, Henry Slesar, Jacques Futrelle

fiction mystery short stories mysterious medium-paced

832 pages | first published 2000

The Best American Short Stories 1966 by Shirley Ann Grau, Harris Downey, Herbert Wilner, Dan Wakefield, Mary Josephine Lavin, Henry Kreisel, Curt Leviant, George Dickerson, William Maxwell, Hugh Hood, Jack Cady, David Ely, Mary Hedin, Martha Foley, Flannery O'Connor, Josephine Jacobsen, David Burnett, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Joseph Whitehill, Walter S. Terry, Abraham Rothberg

The Best American Short Stories 1966

Shirley Ann Grau, Harris Downey, Herbert Wilner, Dan Wakefield, Mary Josephine Lavin, Henry Kreisel, Curt Leviant, George Dickerson, William Maxwell, Hugh Hood, Jack Cady, David Ely, Mary Hedin, Martha Foley, Flannery O'Connor, Josephine Jacobsen, David Burnett, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner, Joseph Whitehill, Walter S. Terry, Abraham Rothberg

nonfiction short stories relaxing medium-paced

381 pages | first published 1966

The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson

The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson

fiction classics horror dark reflective slow-paced

276 pages | first published 1954

Charles by Shirley Jackson

Charles

Shirley Jackson

fiction classics short stories funny reflective medium-paced

32 pages | first published 1991

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories by Robert M. Coates, Charles G. Finney, Oliver La Farge, E.B. White, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Henry Kuttner, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl, John S. Sharnik, James H. Schmitz, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories

Robert M. Coates, Charles G. Finney, Oliver La Farge, E.B. White, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Henry Kuttner, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl, John S. Sharnik, James H. Schmitz, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury

fiction fantasy short stories reflective medium-paced

210 pages | first published 1956

Collected Short Stories by Shirley Jackson

Collected Short Stories

Shirley Jackson

fiction horror short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

104 pages | first published 2001

The Dark Descent by John Collier, David G. Hartwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury

The Dark Descent

The Dark Descent #1-3

John Collier, David G. Hartwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury

fiction horror short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced

1011 pages | first published 1987

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson

fiction classics horror short stories dark slow-paced

208 pages | first published 2013

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers by John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers

John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Nelson Algren, Alice Walker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Irwin Shaw, Mary McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Kathy Kiernan, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Margaret Atwood, Jim Thompson, William Saroyan, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Jane Smiley, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Bernard Malamud, Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Michael M. Moore, William Faulkner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Chester Himes

fiction short stories reflective medium-paced

452 pages | first published 1994