Shirley Jackson: A Companion

Contents: Reading Jackson: Style, Theme, Tradition – Ralph Beliveau: Shirley Jackson and American Folk Horror: The Public Face of Private Demons – Michael T. Wilson: «How the Dinner Revolves»: Eating, Food, and Consumption in the Fiction of Shirley Jackson – Daniel T. Kasper: The Posthumous Style of Shirley Jackson – Carl H. Sederholm: Raising Her Voice: Stephen King’s Literary Dialogue with Shirley Jackson – The Politics and Poetics of Space – Patrycja Antoszek: «Intrusions from the Outside World»: Shirley Jackson and the Politics and Poetics of Enclosure – Dara Downey: «No one Can Ever Find Me»: Gingerbread Houses in Shirley Jackson’s Fiction – Elizabeth Mahn Nollen: The «Terrible» House as Locus of Female Power in We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Michelle Kay Hansen: «Move Your Feet, Dear. I’m Conga- ing»: Drawing Circles around Domesticity in Shirley Jackson’s Cartoons – Luke Reid: Romancing the Nostalgic Future: Prophecy, Planning, and Postwar Architecture in The Sundial – Mothers and Other Monsters – Wyatt Bonikowski: Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Secret of the Mother’s Desire in The Bird’s Nest – Rebecca Million: Living an Aporia: Notes on Shirley Jackson’s Home Books and the Impossible- Possible of Motherhood – Ibi Kaslik: Hangsaman: Writing the Self in Blood at the Margins – Mikaela Bobiy: Home Is Where the Heart Is(n’t): The House as Mother in Jackson’s House Trilogy – Outsiders and Minorities – Emily Banks: Erotic Envy and the Racial Other in «Flower Garden» – Stephanie A. Graves: Wicked Creature(s): Delirium and Difference in The Witchcraft of Salem Village – Rebecca Stone Gordon: «A Lady of Undeniable Gifts but Dubious Reputation»: Reading Theodora in The Haunting of Hill House – Jackson on Film and Television – Will Dodson: «Some Disturbing Obstruction»: Lizzie from The Bird’s Nest – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Walking Alone Together: Adapting Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House – Kristopher Woofter: Long Twilight (Hosszú Alkony), Shirley Jackson, and the Eerie In- Between – Erin Giannini: A Good Life?: Merricat, from Tyrant to Savior in We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Its Film Adaptation – Darryl Hattenhauer: Afterword.