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The Missing Girl

By Shirley Jackson
Series: Penguin Modern
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The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson is a collection of short stories exploring the eerie and unsettling aspects of small-town life and ordinary people. In these stories, Jackson masterfully weaves themes of identity, societal norms, and the uncanny, delivering haunting narratives that leave readers questioning reality. Her unique blend of subtle horror and psychological insight keeps the suspense palpable throughout.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to unsettling stories that delve into the mysterious and eerie aspects of the human psyche. Shirley Jackson crafts a haunting narrative that explores themes of disappearance and the unknown, making it perfect for those who appreciate psychological tension and supernatural suspense.

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The Missing Girl

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Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

"Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..."

Malice, paranoia, and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.

Series: Penguin Modern

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241339282

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 February 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 161.0mm

Weight: 44g

Pages: 64

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Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Shirley Jackson

About the Author

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

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