Rating: 4/5
Review:
A good introduction
This is a selection of three short stories by Shirley Jackson which
show her to be a very fine writer of unsettling pieces.
The Missing Girl recounts the story of a young woman who goes missing from a summer camp and the rather chilling response to her disappearance. Journey With A Lady is more lighthearted with a subversive twist, and Nightmare is a dreamlike story which may be a vision of a dystopian society or – more probably in my reading – a literal nightmare. They are quite varied, but each one very well written, unusual and disturbing in its own way.
For me, this has been a very good introduction to Shirley Jackson and I look forward to reading more of her work.
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