Among all the charming stories in Shirley Jackson’s two charming ... like the Talmud is about a boy called Charles. Charles is a classmate of Jackson’s son Laurie, who at this point very ...

Midcentury American writer Shirley Jackson has long been known for her ... even claiming that she had used magic to break the leg of publisher Alfred A. Knopf, with whom her husband was involved ...

Early in her career, Shirley Jackson was ... her New York Times obituary. Jackson didn’t seem to mind all the witchy talk. She joked that she put a spell on publisher Alfred Knopf that caused ...

An interview with Shirley Jackson’s son Laurence Jackson Hyman ... being embarrassed about being in the stories. One of them, “Charles,” her second most anthologized story, is about me ...

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 ...