Shirley Jackson: A Companion - Paperback

by Simon Bacon (Other), Kristopher Woofter (Editor)

From "The Lottery" to The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson's oeuvre has created an influential apocalyptic vision of America. This collection of essays offers new insights into her work, in light of themes of space, motherhood and race, as well as filmic adaptations of her work.

Author Biography

Kristopher Woofter teaches courses in horror, the Gothic, and the Weird tradition in literature and the moving image in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Québec. He has co-edited several collections, including American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (2021), Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond (2019), and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (2015). He has also published essays on the series Supernatural (2020), Caitlín R. Kiernan (2019), George A. Romero (2018), pseudo-documentary (2018), The Cabin in the Woods (2014), and the Gothic documentary (2013).