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Shirley Jackson's horror is rooted firmly in the mid-century, middle class, American domestic sphere... or so we might assume.

What if I told you Jackson’s domestic horror is the product of a tradition much older, much more culturally and geographically far-reaching, and much more insidious than you initially supposed?

Jackson may seem to situate her stories in a specific domestic sphere, but look past this veneer and you’ll see that her horror is influenced by centuries-old texts; dangerous ballads, vicious early modern propaganda-peddling broadsides, and timeless tales of persecution and fear are welded into the very framework of her story-telling.

This is a story of Demons, early-modern witch hunts, and patriarchal malevolence. It's a story about magic, abuse, and the rewriting of ages-old archetypes. It's the story of Jackson's 'The Daemon Lover' and the long, dark history underpinning her writing.


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'The 15th-Century Incel Who Started The Witch Hunt', Your Magic, https://www.thisisyourmagic.com/episo...

Boguet, Henri, 'The Threat of Witchcraft, 1602', The Witchcraft Sourcebook, ed. Brian P. Levack (London: Routledge, 2007)

Bonikowski, Wyatt, '"Only one antagonist": The Demon Lover and the Feminine Experience in the Work of Shirley Jackson', Gothic Studies, vol. 15 (2013)

Gowdie, Isobel, 'Confession Three' in Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2013)

Harris, Joanne, 'Shirley Jackson centenary: a quiet, hidden rage', https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

Holt, Jessica Ann, 'Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare's Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter's Tale', Theatre History Studies, vol. 40 (2021)

Igwe, Leo, and Rakusen, India, 'To Be Called a Witch', Witch (2023) BBC Radio 4, 30 May

Jackson, Shirley, 'The Daemon Lover', The Lottery and Other Stories (London: Penguin, 2009)

Kramer, Heinrich, 'Malleus Maleficarum, 1486', The Witchcraft Sourcebook, ed. Brian P. Levack (London: Routledge, 2007)

Mambrol, Nasrullah, 'Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s The Daemon Lover', https://literariness.org/2021/05/20/a...

Reed, Toni, Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988)

Stewart, Terry, 'North Berwick Witch Trials', https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...

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Worsley, Lucy, Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts (2022) BBC Two, 24 May


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