A Visit by Shirley Jackson

A Visit by Shirley Jackson is a disturbing short story and a masterpiece of American literature though where it is set exactly is as mysterious as the plot. Another haunted house story to continue our series. This time it is all very strange and unnerving: odd women who live in the tower, visitors who turn out not to be real. Shirley Jackson writes another magnificent supernatural story.

Also known as "The Lovely House", Jackson's "A Visit" is a short fiction story written by Jackson at the height of her powers. It is the story of the haunting of a large, ancient house in the country and so it is a obviously haunted house story, but who is the ghost and who is haunted? What is the meaning of all the details and symbols? Who are the odd family that inhabit the house, and what are they doing?

This is old school creepypasta to knock the socks off the modern hyper-processed, mass-produced stuff you find on the internet.

In the story Margaret visits the mansion like house of her school friend and meets her weird family, including a woman who lives in the tower. It almost seems impossible to escape from the house.

Shirley Jackson is the author of The Lottery (1948), We Have Always Lived At The Castle (1962) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

A Visit is narrated here by Tony Walker of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

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