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  • Published: 8 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141995694
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99

Dark Tales




Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...

  • Published: 8 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141995694
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Dark Tales

In each story in the collection, the everyday world becomes tinted with an odd sheen of terror ... In Jackson's world, the safe house is a trap. Enter it, and you might get lost in the dark

Ottessa Moshfegh

An excellent primer for her short fiction

The Pool

Dark Tales reveals a superior gothic writer ... Shirley Jackson's menacing gothic tales are a joy to rediscover

The Times

An amazing writer

Neil Gaiman

One of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses

Paul Theroux

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable

A. M. Homes

Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written ... No-one can touch her

Donna Tartt