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Shirley Jackson: wife, mom, and author of extremely unnerving and sadistic domestic horror stories (and not always because order). What is residential scary? How is it different to normal blood-and-guts scary? And how did Jackson revolutionise this method of creating? Distilling the silent scream of the homemaker right into the thrilling web pages of her short tales, Jackson subjects the suffering of women in 1950s America. Wish to figure out exactly how she does this? This video is for you.

Content Warnings
Discussion of pet abuse, domestic abuse, suicide, body scary.

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Unique thanks to Harri Hudson for their help in locating the pages for Franklin (2016 )

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Chrenek, Nicole, ‘Housewife Horror: Reconciling Contrasting Depictions of the Domestic in the Works of Shirley Jackson’, (https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/5q47rv51f).

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Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell, 1964).

Gaiman, Neil http://ruthfranklin.net/author/books/shirley-jackson/.

Hand, Elizabeth, “She exposed the delicacy of supposed civilised life’: why Shirley Jackson’s scary speaks to our times’, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/21/why-shirley-jackson-horror-speaks-to- our-times-the-haunting-of-hill-house.

Jackson, Shirley, Life Among the Savages (New York: Penguin, 2015).

Jackson, Shirley, The Lottery and Other Stories (London: Penguin, 2009).

Murphy, Bernice M., ‘Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Humor’, Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House, eds. Jill E. Anderson and Melanie Anderson (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Rosales, L.N., ‘” Sharp Points Closing know Her Throat”: The Domestic Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s Short Fiction’, Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House, eds. Jill E. Anderson and Melanie Anderson (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Smith, Andrew, ‘Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic’, The Female Gothic: New Directions, eds. Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith (London: Macmillan, 2009).

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