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 |
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 |
To read one of Shirley Jackson's signature works is to live in a house built on sand... Jackson's words carve some essential, uncanny instability out of the everyday, and any of us can sink without warning into something consuming we can't understand... -NPR Book Revies |
Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses, and (In a term she uses in Hill House) 'the underside of life.' -The New York Times |