![]() ![]() The author was a troubled figure at the end of her life, and Castle, published in 1961, has in its two female lead characters what Jackson’s biographer Judy Oppenheimer calls the “yin and yang of Shirley’s own inner self” – “one, an explorer, a challenger, the other a contented, domestic homebody”. But while these and the rest of Jackson’s oeuvre are indeed sublime, it is Castle about which I am most evangelical and that I press upon people at every opportunity. Jackson, who died 50 years ago, is perhaps best known for her short story The Lottery and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, twice-filmed and considered to be the last word in haunted-house tales. ![]()
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