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It's on my 'favourite' shelf :)
Author Shirley Jackson used ritual and witchcraft in some of her best known work. The Lottery, of course, was all about formal ritual. And in one of her stories all of the characters turned against a new neighbor purely because her habits looked like witchcraft.
OMG I was so scarred by that story and movie! So incredibly disturbing!
It's very disturbing. I think my favorite Jackson novel is The Haunting of Hill House, because Eleanor is such a complex character. I love to watch her adopting and making her own the little oddities she finds in other people. As though her own habits and memories were not adequate or not what she wanted.
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It's on my 'favourite' shelf :)
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Author Shirley Jackson used ritual and witchcraft in some of her best known work. The Lottery, of course, was all about formal ritual. And in one of her stories all of the characters turned against a new neighbor purely because her habits looked like witchcraft.
OMG I was so scarred by that story and movie! So incredibly disturbing!
It's very disturbing. I think my favorite Jackson novel is The Haunting of Hill House, because Eleanor is such a complex character. I love to watch her adopting and making her own the little oddities she finds in other people. As though her own habits and memories were not adequate or not what she wanted.
