If you’re planning to pre-game Halloween for the entire month, there’s no better author to get you in the mood than San Francisco’s own Shirley Jackson ... there’s Jackson’s Charles, just six pages ...

Beloved author Shirley Jackson would have celebrated her 100th ... full of stories about a troublemaking class clown named Charles. "The Lottery" aside, "The Possibility of Evil" might be Jackson ...

An interview with Shirley ... in the books and stories and gave me some great Groucho-like lines. I don’t remember being embarrassed about being in the stories. One of them, “Charles ...

Charles is a classmate of Jackson’s son Laurie ... going on in that household than the books themselves imply; at no point does the character of Shirley Jackson shoo her children away to ...

Author Shirley Jackson was a unique trailblazer in American ... They're also outcasts from society, and when their estranged, charming cousin Charles (Sebastian Stan) suddenly appears, it ...

That is, until a cousin, Charles ... of Jackson’s disquieting classic. 1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle was inspired by the unsolved poisoning death of an English lawyer. 2. Shirley ...

Just before I began to read "Let Me Tell You," the latest posthumous collection of Shirley ... form — from Jackson's 1952 family memoir, "Life Among the Savages": the sly "Charles," about ...

A new biography views her as a writer in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted ... New York Times News Service Charles McGrath is a contributing writer ...