From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson’s landscape here is most frequently domestic – dinner parties, children’s games and neighbourly gossip – but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose.

This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson’s radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 448
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780241198209
ISBN 10: 0241198208