Dark Tales

这本集子最勾人的地方，不在血腥或鬼怪，而在把日常写成惊惧。通勤变成捉迷藏，贤妻藏 homicidal 念头，热心市民或许是连环杀手——恐怖就长在熟悉事物的裂缝里。读者反馈两极鲜明：有人欲罢不能，也有人嫌刻意悬虚、篇篇浪费时间。这种争议恰恰点破了 Jackson 的看家本领：她不靠跳吓，只凭只言片语的交错、一个眼神，就让恶意如水蒸气般升腾浸润，最终

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was published in 1948. Her novels--which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House--are characterized by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965. All are currently in print (Penguin). Two posthumous volumes of her short fiction are Just An Ordinary Day (Bantam) and Let Me Tell You (Random House). A graphic novel adaptation of "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman, her grandson, was published in 2016 (Farrar-Straus-Giroux). Also in 2016: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) and an authorized biography by Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Norton).