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Sozinha no mundo, Eleanor fica encantada ao receber uma carta do dr. Montague convidando-a para passar um tempo na Casa da Colina, um local conhecido por suas manifestações fantasmagóricas. O mesmo convite é feito a Theodora, uma alma artística e sensitiva, e a Luke, o herdeiro da mansão. Porém, o que começa como uma exploração bem-humorada de um mito inocente se transforma em uma viagem para os piores pesadelos de seus hóspedes. Com o tempo, fica cada vez mais claro que a sanidade — e a vida — de todos está em risco.

Originalmente publicado em 1954 e lançado pela primeira vez em língua portuguesa nesta edição, O ninho do pássaro é um romance menos conhecido de Shirley Jackson, mas não menos impactante. A maestria da autora de A assombração da Casa da Colina aqui expressa a plenitude do título de "rainha do terror", atribuído a ela por mestres do gênero, como Stephen King. Elizabeth Richmond, ou Lizzie, sente dores de cabeça quase todos os dias.

Merricat Blackwood vive com a irmã Constance e o tio Julian. Há algum tempo existiam sete membros na família Blackwood, até que uma dose fatal de arsênico colocada no pote de açúcar matou quase todos. Acusada e posteriormente inocentada pelas mortes, Constance volta para a casa da família, onde Merricat a protege da hostilidade dos habitantes da cidade.

Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House.

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune.

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar Award for...

In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting...

“Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation.”—San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill...

The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked...

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she...

Su invito del professor Montague, intenzionato ad indagare e catalogare i fenomeni dentro la sinistra Hill House, tre giovani, scelti non a caso, si ritrovano a coesistere per una settimana nell'oscura dimora. Eleanor, giovane infelice, quando era molto piccola, è stata protagonista di una manifestazione di un poltergeist; Theodora è in possesso di facoltà incredibili, che vanno dalla premonizione alla telepatia; Luke nipote della vecchia proprietaria di Hill House è incaricato di rappresentare la famiglia Sanderson durante l'esperimento.

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...

La diciottenne Mary Katherine ci racconta della grande casa dove vive reclusa con la bella sorella Constance e lo zio invalido. Tutti gli altri membri della famiglia Blackwood sono morti avvelenati sei anni prima, seduti a tavola, proprio lì in sala da pranzo. E quando arriva il cugino Charles a rompere l'armonia, si snoda sotto i nostri occhi, con piccoli tocchi stregoneschi, una storia sottilmente perturbante che ha le ingannevoli caratteristiche formali di una commedia.

Pura e semplice descrizione della lotteria che si svolge nell'atmosfera pastorale, quasi idilliaca, di un villaggio del New England in un luminoso mattino di giugno - come ogni anno da tempo immemore. Eppure, giunto al termine di questo racconto, l'ascoltatore scoprirà da sé, cosa renda questo racconto un vero e proprio classico della letteratura del terrore.

Merricat lebt am Rande eines Dorfes im Schloss der Familie Blackwood, nur in Gesellschaft ihrer Schwester Constance und dem wunderlichen Onkel Julian, der an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist. Alle anderen Familienmitglieder wurden vergiftet. Merricat liebt die Ruhe im Schloss. Aber seit Constance vor Gericht freigesprochen wurde, den Rest der Familie ermordet zu haben, lässt die Welt den Blackwoods keinen Frieden mehr. Und als Cousin Charles auftaucht, voller falschem Getue und dem verzweifelten Bedürfnis, an den Inhalt des Familiensafes zu kommen, muss Merricat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun, um das Schloss und seine Bewohner vor Schaden zu schützen.

Vier Menschen betreten die alte Villa, die als Hill House bekannt ist. Sie wollen die übernatürlichen Phänomene, die sich angeblich darin ereignen, untersuchen. Die vier werden etwas Böses erleben, das sich ihrer Kontrolle und ihrem Verstand entzieht. Sie können unmöglich wissen, dass sie von dem Haus selbst angelockt wurden und welche bösen Pläne es verfolgt.

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Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches.

In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.