“Shirley Jackson is the master of the haunted tale . . .   Everything this author wrote . . . has in it the dignity and plausibility of myth . . .  Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things.” 
      ---The New York Times Book Review

 

“Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.”  
     ---Dorothy Parker, Esquire

 

“In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original.  She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . She was unique.” 
      ---Newsweek

 

“Rich in her special blend of fright . . . spirits, houses haunted and otherwise.”
     ---Book-of-the-Month Club News

 

“Jackson will make you laugh, contemplate your own mortality, and scare you into a wakeful night.  And she appears to have done it all equally deftly.”
     ---The Miami Herald

 

“Jackson’s fiction is some of the most important to come out of the American literary canon.”
     ---The Denver Post

 

“Leaves no doubt as to Miss Jackson’s craftsmanship and power . . . utterly convincing detail that breaks down the reader’s disbelief.”
     ---Saturday Review