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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I read this book based on the teaser on this website. I think this summary was a bit misleading. This description almost goes out of its way to make the book seem more interesting than it is. Mary Katherine is clearly a young girl with a vivid imagination, but that is almost secondary to the tempo and cadence of the story. From the beginning, you wonder at what it is going on- and you keep turning pages looking for the answers, but sadly, you don...read more
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
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
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!
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