I think this book has an unfortunate subtitle which kind of mars how good the book is and how remarkable Shirley Jackson was as a woman and a writer. The title comes from a review that more or less referred to her in this way. That question, how could the writer responsible for the funny family-memoirs Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages also write The Haunting of Hill House, “The Lottery”, and others?  The answer of course is complex and simple at the same […]