We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go

Donna Tartt

An amazing writer

Neil Gaiman

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master

A. M. Homes

A masterpiece of Gothic suspense

Joyce Carol Oates

For me, it is that unique and dreamlike book ... that stands as her masterpiece

Jonathan Lethem

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson's masterpiece ... Stunning

Elaine Showalter

Manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner, and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the world outside

Time

A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty

The New York Times

A marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery

The New York Times Book Review

So eerie, so disturbing, and not a wasted word, it has the kind of economy I wish I knew how to achieve

Jonathan Coe

This novel brings back all my faith in terror and death. I can say no higher of it and her

Dorothy Parker, Esquire