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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate....show more

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146 pages

Average rating: 6.95

206 RATINGS

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16 REVIEWS

Community Reviews

LMahoney
Jan 26, 2024
8/10 stars
Short and interesting read. Kept me guessing.
LibraryMouse
Jan 19, 2024
6/10 stars
3.5 ⭐
This book was good, mysterious and dark.
Anonymous
Dec 04, 2023
10/10 stars
Shirley Jackson is a gem. The Lottery was my first introduction to her and that fully creeped me out so I decided to try We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And we're creeped out again!

I listened to the audiobook from Audible and it was really well done and about 5+ hours long. Mary Kathering (or Merricat) is 18 and lives with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian in the Blackwood house. There used to be 7 members of the Blackwood family but ...read more
Carol.Ann
Nov 16, 2023
6/10 stars
What a perfectly creepy story for Fall reading. It held my attention to the end, but I kept waiting for a twist or a big reveal of some sort such as discovering the girls were ghosts, but it didn't come and the ending fell a little flat for me. Someone, please, tell me what I missed!
taylor :)
Jul 05, 2023
6/10 stars
Old fashioned spooky, I love the dialect used. Not the direction it thought it was going in but I thought it rounded out well.

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