Hangsaman
Back Cover Text:by the author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Her shattering novel of a young girl led ever deeper into total terror...
"Piercing beyond the ordinary...One cannot doubt a word that Shirley Jackson writes" - New York Times
FRIEND OR FIEND?
The girl Tony was everything Natalie was not - wild where Natalie was subdued, rebellious where Natalie was obedient, unafraid where Natalies was timid, mocking of men where Natalie was overawed."
Why then did Natalie fall under this creature's power?
What did Tony want to do with the innocent college girl who had become a helpless puppet in her hands?
You will not want to guess the answer...
"No one can question Shirley Jackson's ability to do exactly what she wants to do...Hangsaman is as disturbing a novel as The Lottery was a disturbing story." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Eerie and nightmarish!" - Saturday Review
Shirley Jackson, who died in 1956, ws one of the most brilliant writers of her time, widely acclaimed for her dazzling stories and novels of the supernatural. Among them are the famed story The Lottery, and the best-selling The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived In The Castle and Come Along With Me