Podcast appearances and mentions of Shirley Jackson

379 - Unsettling and very layered, but not nightmare fuel... you've found TWO tales from the brilliant mind of Shirley Jackson. Known for haunting eeriness, this episode shows her (mostly) humorous side.

With only five weeks left in this year-long journey, I can feel the end approaching—less like a high-wire act and more like gathering momentum toward something unknown. Week 47 of Ted Gioia's Immersive Humanities course explores twentieth-century American fiction through short stories and novel excerpts, revealing a distinctly American voice: sharp dialogue, vivid settings, and an experimental edge.O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi” (1906): A charming story of love and sacrifice.F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” (1922): Wealth, excess, and a surprising twist.Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (1927): Sparse, tension-filled dialogue.William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929, excerpt): Challenging, with shifting time and perspective.Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1947, excerpt): A powerful sense of invisibility and identity.Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948): Disturbing and unforgettable.Flannery O'Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1955): A Southern Gothic tale with shocking turns.Together, these works feel spacious, restless, and distinctly American—and they remind me how much more willing I am now to embrace difficult, even strange, books.This is a year-long challenge! Join me next week for a little Magical Realism.LINKTed Gioia/The Honest Broker's 12-Month ImmersiveHumanities Course (paywalled!)My Amazon Book List (NOT an affiliate link)CONNECTThe complete list of Crack the Book Episodes: https://cheryldrury.substack.com/p/crack-the-book-start-here?r=u3t2rTo read more of my writing, visit my Substack - https://www.cheryldrury.substack.com.Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cldrury/LISTENSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5GpySInw1e8IqNQvXow7Lv?si=9ebd5508daa245bdApple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crack-the-book/id1749793321Captivate - https://crackthebook.captivate.fm

In this episode of Quick Book Reviews, Philippa is joined by bestselling author Will Dean to discuss his haunting psychological thriller Adrift — a novel that explores control, isolation, and the quiet terror of living with someone who manipulates from the shadows.Will talks candidly about his off-grid life in the Swedish woods, why he writes his first drafts in intense six-week bursts, and how emotional stories like Adrift can take years to fully realise.Together, they discuss:Writing while living off grid and why isolation fuels creativityWhy Will avoids the publishing “noise” and trendsHow Adrift took five years to complete, despite a fast first draftWriting claustrophobic tension without exhausting the readerThe psychology of control, gaslighting, and quiet manipulationWriting from a child's point of view and the emotional toll it takesWhy Will leaves much of the violence off the pageThe fear and excitement of starting a new novelHow rereading favourite books shapes his writingThe current reading crisis and why encouraging children to read matters more than everWill also shares what he's currently reading, why he rereads authors like Shirley Jackson and Sarah Waters, and answers the most important question of all: what powered the writing of Adrift (spoiler: frozen dates, not biscuits).A thoughtful, intense, and revealing conversation about storytelling, fear, and the importance of noticing unheard people in unseen places.Follow Quick Book Reviews for book recommendations, author interviews, and weekly podcast episodes.

In questo appuntamento di febbraio per la rubrica "Te lo (s)consiglio", Andrea ed io ci siamo confrontanti con Leonardo Sciascia e Shirley Jackson. Saremo sopravvissuti al surreale?

paypal.me/LibroTobias ko-fi.com/asier24969 "La gente del verano" o "Los veraneantes" es un relato corto bastante inquietante y misterioso de la autora Shirley Jackson. Una pareja de Nueva York se topa con una siniestra resistencia cuando deciden quedarse en su casa de verano después del Día del Trabajo. Este es el quinto relato que os leo de Shirley Jackson, el referente absoluto de Stephen King, Neil Gaiman y Richard Matheson .ntre much@s otr@s, Canciones: • “You Can't Have My Heart” de James Newton Howard • “Sanctuary” de James Newton Howard Narración: Asier Menéndez Marín Diseño logo Podcast: albacanodesigns (Alba Cano) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Puntata a cura di Jacopo Bulgarini d'Elci e Livio Pacella.Ispirata all'omonimo romanzo di Shirley Jackson del 1959, la miniserie The Haunting of Hill House nel 2018 è stata un'apparizione folgorante. Che ha riportato in auge, in modo intelligente e profondo, l'horror televisivo. Rinverdendo i fasti di un genere, il romanzo gotico, che mescolava “eccitazione e mistero, orrore e rovina”.E aprendo la strada a diversi altri progetti seriali del suo autore, l'ottimo Mike Flanagan. Dal secondo capitolo del progetto antologico, The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020). Alla splendida Midnight Mass. Fino a La caduta della casa degli Usher, altra straordinaria miniserie basata su diversi lavori di Edgar Allan Poe.“Nuovi classici”: il podcast a due voci di Mondoserie su show che diventano fenomeni immediati.Scopri il nostro speciale su Mike Flanagan: https://www.mondoserie.it/speciale-mike-flanagan/ Parte del progetto: https://www.mondoserie.it/  Iscriviti al podcast sulla tua piattaforma preferita o su: https://www.spreaker.com/show/mondoserie-podcast  Collegati a MONDOSERIE sui social:https://www.facebook.com/mondoserie https://www.instagram.com/mondoserie.it/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwXpMjWOcPbFwdit0QJNnXQ  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mondoserie/ 

In this episode of So, You Like Horror?, we take a closer look at The Haunting, a big-budget gothic horror film released at a turning point for studio horror in the late 1990s. Directed by Jan de Bont, the film reflects an era defined by massive sets, early CGI, and a growing belief that scale and spectacle could replace restraint. Loosely inspired by Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, the 1999 adaptation makes a deliberate shift away from psychological ambiguity and internal dread, choosing instead to externalize horror through aggressive architecture, visible supernatural forces, and clearly defined evil. We break down the film's three-act structure, examine Eleanor “Nell” Vance as the emotional center of the story, and explore how Hill House functions as a physical manifestation of trauma rather than a space of uncertainty. Along the way, we discuss recurring themes including caretaking as self-erasure, fate versus free will, faith reduced to aesthetic design, and the tension between spectacle and subtlety in horror storytelling. We also place The Haunting in conversation with earlier and later adaptations, including The Haunting from 1963 and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House from 2018, to ask a central question: is this film a misunderstood gothic tragedy, or a cautionary tale about what happens when visual excess overwhelms emotional weight? Thank you, everyone, for your support. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠@so_you_like_horror⁠⁠⁠ or email us directly at soyoulikehorror@gmail.com. We're open to all conversations, suggestions, topics, and criticisms.

En nuestro episodio octogésimo sexto, el de los pescadores con gripe en Amalfi, Fernando nos cuenta no una ni dos, sino cuatro desnoticias, entre ellas una sobre Dragones y Mazmorras en que los libros salvan al juego y otra sobre un barquito que se creyó la Atlántida de Hemingway.Nos contamos Una noche en Amalfi, de Begoña Huertas, una novela corta y trepidante en un entorno de ensueño en la que todo sale regulinchi y que no nos ha terminado de convencer.Comentamos el cuento de Shirley Jackson "La noche en que todos tuvimos gripe", muy divertido e intrigante, pero no conseguimos encontrar la manta azul. Alfredo tampoco.Y tenemos nueva sección, Pescado en la red, que abrimos con Fernando del Soto y que si quieres saber en qué consiste tendrás que escucharnos o puede que un día te pesquemos a ti.Nuestra próxima lectura será "No hemos venido a divertirnos" de Nina Lykke y, como nos gusta mentirnos y desmentirnos, el cuento a leer este mes no será el que decimos en el episodio, sino Fruto de la inercia, de Andrés Ortiz Tafur.Recuerda comprar libros en librerías de barrio o de tu pueblo. Escúchanos, compártenos y ¡Cierra el libro al salir!

Actually, probably, I'd never read it because I was scarred by "The Lottery" in grade school. I should NOT have been afraid. Hangsaman is incredible! It also has some verrrrry confusing elements that deserve the deepest of analysis. Listen in for exactly that. What a masterpiece!

Winter is a vibe—and so is the way we read during it.  In this episode, Joe is joined by Cece and Meara to talk all things winter reading vibes, from how mood reading works for us to whether TBRs ever stand a chance. We get honest about DNFing books (when we quit, why we quit, and how we make peace with it) and then wrap things up with book recommendations that feel just right for the colder months—think cozy, atmospheric, emotional, and immersive reads.  If your winter reading life looks nothing like your reading goals… you're in good company.  Looking for the video version of our show? Check out the Libby App YouTube channel!  Book recommendations:  Cece's Picks:  The Boys in the Valley – Philip Fracassi  Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children series – Book 1 Every Heart a Doorway) – Seanan McGuire  The Forgotten Girl – India Hill Brown  Echo After Echo – A.R. Capetta   Meara's Picks:  The Hush – Sara Foster  These Immortal Truths - R. Raeta  These Godly Lies – R. Raeta  Cold - Drew Hayden Taylor  One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig   Joe's Picks:   Strange Pictures - Uketsu  Strange Houses - Uketsu   Bad Dolls – Rachel Harrison   The Writing Retreat – Julia Bartz   Breathe In, Bleed Out – Brian McAuley   The Staircase in the Woods – Chuck Wendig   Idle Grounds - Krystelle Bamford   Old Country by Matt & Harrison Query  The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson   Bochica – Carolina Florez-Cerchiaro   Play Nice – Rachel Harrison   The Apartment Across the Hall – Jack Dane   The Most – Jessica Anthony   The Three of Us – Ore Agbaje-Williams   Who's in this episode:   Cece – Links  Meara - Links  Time stamps:  00:00:00 Title  00:00:23 Intro  00:01:13 Diving into winter vibes & mood reading with Cece & Meara!  00:16:05 Meara's tracker spreadsheet & fixing a reading slump  00:20:33 Do TBRs exist anymore?   00:35:10 How do your reading habits change with the season?  00:38:41 DNF'ing books  00:48:41 Some recommended reads for the vibe  01:05:03 Wrap up and outro  Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode in Libby. Library friends can add these titles to their digital collections for free in OverDrive Marketplace and Kanopy. Check out our Cumulative List for the whole season, or this list for today's episode!  Looking for more bookish content? Check out the Libby Life Blog!  We hope you enjoy this episode of Book Lounge by Libby. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can watch the video version of our show on the Libby App YouTube channel. Keep up with us on social media by following the Libby App on Instagram!   Want to reach out? Send an email to bookloungebylibby@overdrive.com. Want some cool bookish swag? Check out our merch store at: http://plotthreadsshop.com/booklounge!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plågade hjältinnor, övernaturlighet och högtravande språk. Annina Rabe funderar över vad som lockar så många kvinnliga författare till gotiken. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Denna essä sändes första gången i februari 2017.I ett sovrum i ett hyrt gammalt hus i New England i USA ligger en kvinna och tittar på en påträngande gul tapet. Hon är deprimerad efter en förlossning och hennes beskyddande make, som också råkar vara hennes doktor, har ordinerat absolut vila. Det är något konstigt med huset, tänker kvinnan. Och hon gillar verkligen inte den där gula tapeten i sovrummet.Det är upptakten till Charlotte Perkins Gilmans klassiska kortroman ”Den gula tapeten” från 1892, där vi stegvis får följa en kvinnas väg mot ett psykiskt sammanbrott. I tapetens mönster börjar hon se de mest märkliga scener, hon ser instängda kvinnor, kvinnor som kryper längs golvet.Det är den en av de otäckaste texter jag vet. Det sakta men säkert glidande förståndet och känslan av skevhet i den hemlika miljön, allt detta gör att det gungar för mitt inre varje gång jag läser om den.Medan jag får kalla kårar av en ganska händelselös novell om en kvinna som ligger och blir tokig i ett sovrum lämnar till exempel berättelser om galna seriemördare mig för det mesta ganska kallsinnig. Det otäcka för mig är det som händer inuti huvudet. Och d et intressanta med skräck är ju att den slår så olika, beroende på vem man är och hur ens fantasier och mardrömmar ser ut.Charlotte Perkins Gilmans kortroman avslutar en samling berättelser i ”Förfärande kvinnor”, en antologi om gotisk skräck skriven av kvinnor, sammanställd och översatt av KG Johansson. Alla novellerna är utkomna under 1800-talet, då den gotiska skräckromanen kulminerade i popularitet.Begreppet ”gotisk litteratur” uppstod första gången i mitten av 1700-talet. Innan dess hade ”gotisk” enbart använt som en term inom konst och arkitektur. Det förändrades när den brittiske konsthistorikern och författaren Horace Walpole gav ut romanen ”Borgen i Otranto”, en skräckberättelse som han själv gav undertiteln ”A gothic story”. Den innehöll alla de motiv vi förknippar med gotisk litteratur; dystra gamla slott, plågade hjältinnor, övernaturliga inslag, galna munkar och en labyrintisk struktur, skildrad med ett melodramatiskt och högtravande språk. Litteraturvetaren och gotikexperten Mattias Fyhr betonar i sin avhandling ”De mörka labyrinterna” att gotik inte är en litterär genre utan ett modus, som kan dyka upp i all litteratur. Skräcken och det övernaturliga är inte heller nödvändiga ingredienser, utan det gotiska utmärks snarare av en känsla av melankoli och krypande obehag. Det blir tydligt i ”Förfärande kvinnor”, där de flesta av novellerna faktiskt inte är särskilt läskiga utan mer sorgliga.Walpoles roman gav upphov till en mängd efterföljare. Den nya romantendensen passade väl in i den begynnande romantiken, som växte fram under en tid när man annars trodde att hela världen gick att kartlägga, mäta och bemästra. Skräcklitteraturen fick härbärgera allt som inte fick plats i den nya tiden; känslor, drömmar och undergångsfantasier. Gotiken var en reaktion mot den förnuftsbaserade upplysningstiden och en viktig del av den borgerliga romanens framväxt i industrialismens tidevarv.Påfallande många författare som skrev i den gotiska traditionen var kvinnor. En av genrens verkliga pionjärer var Ann Radcliffe, som med sin ”Udolphos mysterier”, som sägs ha inspirerat författare som Edgar Allan Poe och Marquis de Sade. Den krassa Jane Austen skrev sin ”Northanger Abbey” som en satir över Radcliffe och hela den gotiska vågen. Huvudpersonen har fått hela sin verklighetsbild förvrängd efter att ha förläst sig på gotiska romaner.Ann Radcliffe efterföljdes av namn som Clara Reeves, Mary Elizabeth Braddon och förstås Frankensteins skapare, Mary Shelley. Det var också vanligt att annars realistiska författare som till exempel systrarna Brontë, eller Elizabeth Gaskell inkluderade gotiska inslag i sina romaner.Varför lockades kvinnliga författare av det gotiska? En pragmatisk förklaring som KG Johansson ger i sin lite väl schematiska introduktion till antologin är att romanskrivande över huvud taget under 17- och 1800-talet till stora delar var en kvinnlig syssla.Troligtvis är det kvinnolitteraturens låga status som gjorde att det dröjde relativt länge innan det började forskas om den gotiska romanen på allvar. Termen Female Gothic myntades på 70-talet av litteraturvetaren Ellen Moers, och sedan dess är den ett eget forskningsfält. Den gotiska litteraturen är en tacksam brunn att ösa ur när det gäller feministiska tolkningar. Den unga kvinnan som sakta drivs till vansinne i Charlotte Perkins Gilmans ”Den gula tapeten” är instängd i hemmet, övervakad av en make som ideligen förklarar att det är farligt för henne att skriva. Betänk att novellen är skriven nästan 40 år innan Virginia Woolfs ”Ett eget rum”. När Mary Elizabeth Braddons kvinnliga vålnad i ”Den kalla omfamningen” hemsöker sitt svekfulla ex genom att lägga sina iskalla armar runt hans hals ligger det nära till hands att se det som en hämnd på ett helt patriarkalt förtryckarsamhälle. Och ett av de mest klassiska exemplen, den galna kvinnan på vinden i Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre, har fått representera varenda känsla av undertryckt vrede och sexualitet en kvinna kan härbärgera.Den starka symboliken i det gotiska lockar fortfarande många kvinnliga författare och litteraturforskare. Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood och Monika Fagerholm är bara några författare som har gotiska inslag i sina böcker. Här i Sverige är Maria Gripe, Inger Edelfeldt och Mare Kandre några av de tydligaste exemplen. Populär- och ungdomslitteraturen svämmar över av skildringar om vampyrer och zombier.På senare år har gotiken haft ett uppsving i litteraturen. Den så kallade gurlesktraditionen har inslag som är tydligt gotiska: av skräck, förvridning och ett söndertrasat flickideal. Skrivarutbildningen Litterär Gestaltning vid Göteborgs universitet inrättade en speciell ”häxskola” där unga kvinnliga författare uppmuntrades att skriva fram sin inre häxa. Danska Olga Ravn, en av de två lärarna, gick i sin debutroman ”Celestine” direkt tillbaka till gotiken när hon lät huvudpersonen leva ett parallellt liv i en inmurad 1500-talsflickas kropp.Den dystopiska tid vi lever i nu har onekligen vissa likheter med tiden för den gotiska litteraturens födelse. Dels känslan av att befinna sig på den teknologiska utvecklingens höjdpunkt, samtidigt en allt starkare förnimmelse av undergång och katastrof. Men jag tror också att gotikens lockelse har en annan mindre tidsbunden förklaring, som handlar om ett evigt behov av att närma sig de egna gränserna för tillåtna känslor och fantasier. Det behovet har förstås både män och kvinnor, men kvinnor omges fortfarande i hög grad av oskrivna regler och begränsningar, även om de ser annorlunda ut idag än under den viktorianska eran. Charlotte Perkins Gilmans novell om kvinnan som ligger och stirrar på den gula tapeten är ju så svindlande otäck just för att den också visar galenskapen också kan vara en väg till frihet.Annina RabelitteraturkritikerLitteratur”Förfärande kvinnor – gotisk skräck från Brontë till Gilman” i urval och översättning av KG Johansson.

In this episode of So, You Like Horror?, we begin a two-part discussion of The Haunting of Hill House, focusing on Episodes 1 through 5. We start by tracing the series' literary roots back to Shirley Jackson's original novel, a foundational work of psychological horror that reframed haunted houses as emotional spaces shaped by grief rather than simple sites of terror. We also acknowledge earlier film adaptations, The Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999), before examining how Mike Flanagan reimagines the story for television, shifting the emphasis from a single haunted location to a fractured family haunted across decades. From there, we break down the opening episodes of the series, beginning with “Steven Sees a Ghost,” which establishes Hill House as a living presence and introduces the Crain siblings as adults still shaped by childhood trauma. Steven's skepticism and denial, Shirley's obsession with control, Theo's guarded empathy, Luke's addiction and bargaining, and Nell's growing isolation form the emotional backbone of the show. Rather than treating these characters as archetypes, the series positions them as embodiments of the five stages of grief, each coping differently with the same formative loss. As the episodes progress, we explore how funerals, addiction, psychic sensitivity, and sibling estrangement function as extensions of the haunting itself. The Bent-Neck Lady is introduced not simply as a ghost, but as a mystery tied to time, memory, and inevitability, culminating in Episode 5's devastating revelation that reframes the entire series. Throughout this discussion, we return to a central question: is The Haunting of Hill House more effective as a horror series or as a family tragedy, and does the distinction even matter? This episode examines how trauma lingers, how grief reshapes identity, and why Hill House continues to follow the Crain family long after they leave its walls.

Alison Littlewood's latest novels, published as A. J. Elwood, are The Other Lives of Miss Emily White and The Cottingley Cuckoo. Her first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and described as ‘perfect reading for a dark winter's night.' Other titles include Mistletoe, The Hidden People, The Crow Garden, The Unquiet House and Path of Needles. Her short stories have been selected for several Best Of anthologies and published in her collections, Quieter Paths, The Flowering and A Curious Cartography. She has won the Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction. Alison lives in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls in deepest darkest Yorkshire, England.    HarperCollins on 3 October announced the acquisition of Until We Drown by Ava Morwood, the penname of Alison Littlewood, who has previously been an R&J pick and won the Shirley Jackson award.   Acquired with UK and Commonwealth rights from Oli Munson at AM Heath in a two-book deal, Megan Jones will publish Until We Drown in hardback, ebook and audio in April 2026.   A spellbinding thriller with a powerful sense of place, Until We Drown is set in the Peak District, where Ellie Kellaway and her family are seeking a fresh start. Ellie hopes to leave behind her troubling memories of the sea – and her husband's affair with the beautiful wild swimmer he met there.   But this new home harbours dark secrets, where ancient legends intertwine with chilling realities. When Ellie's daughter finds a mermaid carving hidden in the bones of their house, the family find themselves pulled into an undertow of betrayal and vengeance which threatens to drown them all.   Megan Jones said: ‘I am thrilled to be working with Ava, not only a wonderfully talented writer but someone passionate about the stories which special places hide. Until We Drown is a thriller that conjures a dark fascination that lasts long after the final page.'   Ava Morwood said: ‘I'm completely thrilled that Until We Drown has found such an amazing home. It's a heart-and-soul of a novel, which began with my fascination with the presence of mermaid folklore in the landlocked Peak District and grew into a rather darker, more dangerous contemporary thriller. I'm beyond happy to be working with Megan and the fabulous team at HarperNorth, and grateful to my agent, Oli Munson, for making this happen.'   Find out more: AvaMorwood.com AlisonLittlewood.com

Jacqueline Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of 23 novels for adults and teenagers, and the recipient of Great Britain's Talkabout prize, The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, and named to the short list for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, with more than 3 million copies in print in 34 languages. Mitchard's essays also have been published in magazines worldwide, widely anthologized, and incorporated into school curricula. Her latest novel is The Bird Watcher. Learn more at: JacquelineMitchard.comIntro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro RecordingFollow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcastEmail questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

Hi all! In honor of Thanksgiving, we decided to share what we're doing to get MORE of what we're grateful for in our writing lives—as in, try not just to give a nod to gratitude but actually increase the things we do to feel it. Enjoy! Are you staring down a holiday shopping list with a haunted look in your eyes? My great big guide to holiday under-the-radar book-giving perfection can help. Maybe you think not everyone in your life wants a book, but honestly, they are just wrong. I've got a book on my list for the therapy-speak-loving teen who's glued to TikTok, a book for your mom whose book club just forced her to read Emily Henry and just wants a protagonist with a little seasoning. One for your dad, who thinks TV hasn't been the same since The X-Files. And a few for your book-loving bestie, who's read everything already, and all you have to do to get the list to drop right into your phone for your shopping pleasure is join my newsletter, Hashtag AmReading, at kjda.substack.com—link in the show notes and pretty much anywhere where you can find me, which is easy.EPISODE TRANSCRIPTMultiple SpeakersIs it recording? Now it's recording, yay. Go ahead. This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone. I don't remember what I'm supposed to be doing. All right, let's start over. Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Okay, now—one, two, three.KJ Dell'AntoniaHey kids, it's KJ, and this is the Hashtag AmWriting Podcast, the place where we help you play big in your writing life, love the process, and finish what matters.Jess LaheyI'm Jess Lahey. I am the author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation, and you can find my work at The New York Times and The Washington Post and The Atlantic.Sarina BowenAnd I'm Sarina Bowen. My newest novel is called Thrown for a Loop, and you can find it at bookstores everywhere.Jennie NashAnd I'm Jennie Nash. I'm the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to lead the emerging book coaching industry. And I'm the author of the Blueprint books that help you get your book out of your head and onto your page. And today, the four of us have gathered to talk about gratitude. It's the week of Thanksgiving, and we've been thinking about the things that we're grateful for in our writing life, and how we want to celebrate that and amplify that. So we thought we'd share that all with you today. KJ, do you want to start by talking about what you're grateful for?KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah, I actually managed to give this some thoughts. Since we did, we did talk about it. And I should say we kind of got the idea from Laura Vanderkam's newsletter, which is really great, and you should subscribe. She was just talking about how, you know, it's one thing to be grateful for things like, “Whoo, I'm grateful that I live in such a beautiful place,” but it's another thing to say, “And because I'm grateful that I live in such a beautiful place, this week I will make a point of going for a walk, you know, tonight with my dog, in a place that I love,” or something along that. Her point was: come up with something and then actually do something to amplify that for yourself. So you're not just sitting around, you know, writing a gratitude journal. You're actually trying to do something about it. So having announced that I am totally prepared for this—I'm not really, but I kind of am. Okay. So one of the things that I am grateful for this year, a little weirdly, is AI, and it is not for the reasons anyone might think. I'm primarily grateful—I'm grateful that the spurt of AI in everything that I read, from Goodreads book reviews to things in my inbox to, I'm sorry, actual articles in actual newspapers… it's become so recognizable. The stuff that is written, the pattern, the three examples, the particular words that are invariably used. Oh, somebody threw one out the other night—oh, in the real estate world, if it says something is “nestled between two things,” that's AI. Anyway, that made me realize that the last thing I want is something else to do any of this for me. I just don't. I just, you know, sometimes you sit around going, “Oh, somebody just write this book for me—” you know what? No. No. Because I don't want my book to be nestled between a rock and a hard place or whatever. So, so no. So what I'm doing to sort of bring that home for myself is I'm actually trying to be more present, in particular within the AmWriting—the AmWriting universe. So I've been doing something that I'm calling Hashtag AmWriting ‘Almost' Every Day. It's really nowhere close to every day. Don't worry about getting your inbox full. But I am—you know, that's actually me. If I have time and something to say, or something to whine, or some write-alongs to share, or an idea, then I'm going to put that out there for y'all. And hopefully you're going to comment back, and you probably won't bother to use AI to do that, because that would be really silly. So that's a thing I'm doing, and a thing that I'm grateful that I've suddenly come to the realization of.Jess LaheyWhat's funny, KJ, is that I can absolutely tell when you're really enjoying writing, because it—it just comes through, as it does with most people. But it's been… your newsletters have been really fun, and you're really in it. And I love reading them. I absolutely love reading them.Jennie NashIt gets a little sassy.KJ Dell'AntoniaThanks!Jess LaheyShe does. She does get a little sassy.Jennie NashI love it.Jess LaheyYep, the Shirley Jackson comes out in her, and it's really fun. I like that a lot.Jennie NashJess, do you want to go next?Jess LaheyYeah. Sure. So newsletters have come to mean a lot to me. I have a lot of drafts sitting there, some of which I don't think—I may never publish. But I'm really, really grateful that writing has, for my entire life, been the way that I process what I'm thinking about. I do it a lot by talking, but when I'm alone in the woods, like I am right now in Vermont, writing is how I figure things out, and I'm so grateful for that, because, you know, as I wrote about in my newsletter, I'm dealing with breast cancer, and I'm about to have surgery, and some of that stuff is really, really scary. And how I think about it, and how I manage it, is through writing about it. And I'm just—I've never been so grateful to have, even if it never goes out into the world, a place to write about that stuff. And, and, yeah, I'm so grateful for the words. Absolutely.Jennie NashThat's so beautiful, that in the scariest, most difficult time, it's the most natural thing that you turn to.Jess LaheyYeah, I think there are some people who pour themselves out in watercolors, or some people—whatever. The words, man, they're the best.Jennie NashVery cool. Sarina, what about you?Sarina BowenYeah, well, as always, my gratitude runs toward the granular and the practical. I guess I can't ever get away from that. So I am grateful to deadlines. Last month, I had a really difficult deadline. I had to scramble and set everything else aside and keep myself from panicking. And I did it. I actually—I turned it in, and then I immediately went on a book tour for a different book. So that was a difficult experience and a difficult month, and I'm not used to quite so much deadline pressure. But the wonderful thing is, is that I have these deadlines because of the work that I have placed with publishers, and I wouldn't want to change a single thing about that. So even if I need to get a little better about my timing, I recognize that—even in the darkest day—that it's a gift to have this problem. And then I'm also grateful for coffee shops, because that has been a place for me to work this year. And I never did this before. I was one of those people who had to be at home, in a room all by myself, in the quiet, writing. And suddenly that became really difficult for me. The quiet was too much quiet. There was too much doom scroll, there was too much self-reflection. And it really started the day after the election, actually. Like, I sort of ordered KJ to meet me out at a coffee shop because I needed to be where other people were. And it was really grounding—like, there we were, and the barista is a familiar face, and everything was fine inside that shop, you know, which was, in itself, a little bubble of privilege. But, but just being out in the world, seeing the rest of the world keep chugging, has really focused me. And I've spent a lot of time in a lot of different coffee shop and library settings in the intervening couple of months—and, well, almost a year now—and it's felt fantastic. So I am excited that there are places where I'm allowed to go pay way too much for a cup of coffee and then sit there for two hours, and I will continue to do it.Jess LaheyCan I add a layer to the Sarina—to the Sarina stuff? Because I got to go to, as some of the other people talking today did, got to go to one of Sarina's events. And, you know, we love Sarina, and we just rave about Sarina, and I think she's a genius, and I think her writing is wonderful. But I was in a room of people who knew her work. Like, at one point, someone asked about whether or not she was going to be writing more in, like, The Company Series, which is one of the series she started to write. And there are a couple books—in that one. And then when she's like, “Oh, I don't—I think the time for that is over,” and people were like, “Awww,” and they were sad, and they knew characters really well. There was a die-hard fan of one of her books—I think it was Stay. And I just—I'm so grateful to be able to go to those events and see that other people love Sarina as much and respect Sarina's work as much as I do. And my whole family was there. So my kid, who's been hearing about, you know, my friend who wrote—writes “kiss me” books, he was like, “Man, people are into her books.” And I'm like, “Yeah, I told you. I've been trying to tell you.” And it was great. It was really fun to see people that into it.Sarina BowenWell, the thing is that romance readers really are special. I'm not saying there aren't—there aren't fandoms in other genres as well. But it's something about a romance novel involves characters that aren't afraid to say how they feel, and that is how romance readers are about the books. They are not afraid to say what they feel, and they are there for all the feelings in the first place. And it is really a great spot to be. So for every writer who ever looked down at the romance section of the bookstore, I got news for you. It's really nice over there.Jess LaheyIt's great. The people were so great.Jennie NashAnd we have gratitude for the romance—the romance readers too.Jess LaheyYeah.Jennie NashI love all of your—your gratitude's. Mine is—I guess I would say that I am grateful for having the identity of a writer as a thing that I take with me wherever I go. And what I mean by that is I have been traveling to see family, and there were airplane troubles, lots of different airplane troubles, actually, on this particular trip, and lots of delays, overnight delays, sitting in airports for long periods of time, all of that, and I am never sad about those things. I'm almost never at a total loss. Like, you tell me that I have to spend six hours at the San Francisco airport, and I'm fine, because I can fill the time—not just, not just fill it like, “Oh, I can get through this,” but I can actually have really productive, useful, awesome time for six hours in the San Francisco airport. And if I have to spend a night at a terrible airport hotel, and, you know, just all the things—and I was so grateful when I thought about it in that way, that here's a thing that I can take with me wherever I go, that all I need is something to write on. Could be my phone. It could be a piece of airport hotel notepad and paper. It could even be a torn-out page of a magazine that I bought at the airport. And I—I can be somebody. I can be somebody doing something that I find interesting and good and useful. And I just am so grateful for that. What an amazing thing to be. And obviously holiday travel is a special kind of thing, but just the thought that—that that comes with me, no matter where I go or what I do or what happens in my life—I have that, and I'm very grateful for that. So I don't know, KJ, in terms of how am I going to bring that forward or exercise it or do it? I guess—I guess I've got to hope for smoother travels.KJ Dell'AntoniaYou should just get stuck in more airports, but you don't want to get stuck in more airports? I feel like that should be your goal now.Jennie NashI guess if you take it to a very granular, practical level, like Sarina does—always have a notebook with you, man. That's what I got to say, and a working writing implement. It saves the day.Jess LaheyAnd then you text the word “sticker” to the rest of us, and we know, “Oh, man, those travel stickers—those are worth double stickers.” We always say that travel stickers are double stickers.Jennie NashIt's so true. It's so true. Well, we just wanted to pop in here today to share this gratitude episode with you all and to give you some things to think about, about your writing life and your writing practice. And we hope that everyone is having a day filled with gratitude. KJ, do you want to say other things?KJ Dell'AntoniaI wanted to say that I think we're all grateful for the way this community is slowly but steadily growing. I've been doing Write-Alongs with a bunch of people lately. We've been seeing people in the actual Substack chat, which, if you…Jess LaheyThe chat is fun.KJ Dell'AntoniaUse Substack chat, that's great. And you know—you know what it is, and if you don't, that's fine. You can totally hit the same results by talking to us in the comments, which is the same as comments on anything. I just—I just really like sort of seeing the same people and faces pop up over and over again, and feeling the same kind of “less alone” about this that I used to feel back in the early days of blogging. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have pretty much, you know—I'll put a thing on Instagram, and then I'm out of there because, again, it's—there's, there's so much slop now. I'm not really doing a lot of other things. But I am here, and there are other people here, and I think that's so fun.Jennie NashIt's really fun. And we will continue to be here with—with lots of offerings, from Nerd Corner episodes to Write Big episodes to KJ Writing Along episodes, and we're in the chat to help and answer questions, and we have other things up our sleeves too. So keep tuning in.KJ Dell'AntoniaYeah. All right.Jess LaheyAll right, everyone until next time around, keep your butt in the chair and your head in the game.NarratorThe Hashtag AmWriting Podcast is produced by Andrew Perrella. Our intro music, aptly titled Unemployed Monday was written and played by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their time and their creative output, because everyone deserves to be paid for their work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by debut author Leon Craig to talk about her novel The Decadence – a story of millennial debauchery in a haunted house which uses a knowing patchwork of literary influences from Boccaccio and Shirley Jackson to Martin Amis and Mark Z. Danielewski to make an old form fresh. She discusses how and why it took her so long to write, how she first acquired a taste for the gothic, and why she thinks the horror novel, that seeming relic of the 1970s, is making such a dramatic comeback. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by debut author Leon Craig to talk about her novel The Decadence – a story of millennial debauchery in a haunted house which uses a knowing patchwork of literary influences from Boccaccio and Shirley Jackson to Martin Amis and Mark Z. Danielewski to make an old form fresh. She discusses how and why it took her so long to write, how she first acquired a taste for the gothic, and why she thinks the horror novel, that seeming relic of the 1970s, is making such a dramatic comeback.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcastsContact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael, Pax, and Rob talk about lots of stuff including Silver Age Wonder Girl, Man-Wolf, Hell House by Richard Matheson, three Shirley Jackson novels, podcast apps, and Predator: Badlands.

¡Feliz Halloween a todos! Durante el mes de octubre hicimos un programa diario dedicado al mejor género de todos y lo terminamos con el regreso de Katy Becker al esudio de grabación. Si extraña LAS CLAVES DEL ÉXITO y/o EL PODCAST SIN NOMBRE (EPSN), este será un regalo para usted. Nos juntamos a conversar durante todo THE SHINING así que déle play cuando nosotros le decimos y vea esta fundamental película con nosotros. ¡Ojalá les guste y vayan al Patreon por los otros programas! Aquí les dejo lo que hicimos: OCTUBRE TERROROSO Día 1: KWAIDAN (1964) Día 2: UNTIL DAWN (2025) Día 3: THE UNKNOWN (1927) Día 4: THE SADNESS (KU BEI, 2021) Día 5: THE INNOCENTS (1961) Día 6: TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) Día 7: THE WORLD'S END (2013) Día 8: CORPSE BRIDE (2005) Dïa 9: PET SEMATARY (1989) Dïa 10: CHARLIE BROWN Y LA GRAN CALABAZA (1966) Día 11: WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000) Día 12: CORALINE (2009) Dïa 13: WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025) Día 14: THE VVITCH (2015) Día 15: HAXAN (1922) Día 16: DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) Día 17: MARROWBONE (2017) Día 18: BLACULA (1972) Día 19: THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025) Día 20: V/H/S HALLOWEEN (2025) Dïa 21: POSSUM (2018), con la Fer. Día 22: DARK SHADOWS (2012) Día 23: SEGMENTOS FAVORITOS DE LA CASITA DEL TERROR DE LOS SIMPSONS, con la Fer. Día 24: WELCOME TO DERRY (2025) Día 25: THE LONG WALK (2025) Dïa 26: GOOD BOY (2025) Dïa 27: THE THING (1982), con Valeria. Día 28: SLAUGHTER HIGH (1985), con Alejandro. Día 29: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE (1962) + FEUD (2017). Dïa 30: THE LOTTERY (1948) de Shirley Jackson. Dïa 31: THE SHINING (1980), audiocomentario con Katy Becker. Si quiere escuchar el resto, lo esperamos en www.patreon.com/hermeselsabio Si no, gracias igual y ¡Feliz Halloween!

With stories like “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson was one of the great horror authors of the 20th century. In 2012, Ruth Franklin wrote a biography of the writer called Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. In today's episode, we revisit a conversation between Franklin and NPR's Linda Wertheimer. They talk about Jackson's childhood, domestic life, and her unique ability to see "extraordinary evil” under the surface of ordinary life.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

With special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Southern Tier's imperial pumpkin ale, then -- to celebrate Halloween -- review a series of scary stories from Shirley Jackson. In this episode we dive into the eerie, unsettling world of Shirley Jackson. Best known for The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson was a master of psychological tension, small-town menace, and the dark corners of everyday life. The boys discuss several of her short stories — how she creates unease without gore, how she uses ordinary settings to expose cruelty and conformity, and why her work still feels so disturbingly relevant today.Here are the stories we cover. * Flower Garden* The Daemon Lover * The Renegade* The Witch * The Tooth * The Lottery

Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph review ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Haunting - a 1963 supernatural horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise, adapted by Nelson Gidding from Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn.Additional topics include:Ozgood Perkins' thoughts on Monster: The Ed Gein StoryThe 25 biggest Halloween songs of all timeFrancis Ford Coppola's bank accountThe death of Samantha EggarJoin us on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/FishJellyFilmReviews⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send them stuff? Fish Jelly PO Box 461752 Los Angeles, CA 90046Find merch here: https://fishjellyfilmreviews.myspreadshop.com/allVenmo @fishjellyVisit their website at www.fishjellyfilms.comFind their podcast at the following: Anchor: https://anchor.fm/fish-jelly Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/388hcJA50qkMsrTfu04peH Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fish-jelly/id1564138767Find them on Instagram: Nick (@ragingbells) Joseph (@joroyolo) Fish Jelly (@fishjellyfilms)Find them on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/ragingbells/ https://letterboxd.com/joroyolo/Nick and Joseph are both Tomatometer-approved critics at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/nicholas-bell https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/joseph-robinson

The Sonic Stage Players present the final trilogy of live horrors from the Bicentennial Theatre. Adapted and Directed with production by Jack J. Ward. Recording by Mike Miller and starring, Jack Ward, Betty Senger, Barb Moxom, Jim Warburton, Jason Pyett, Judith Thompson, Katherine LeBlanc, Wanda Candolini, and with Julia Moxsom providing practical sound effects. And our final act of the Transcontinental Terror 2025 series comes from the NBC Short Story anthology series with Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May October never end! As Halloween approaches, we present you with two conversations from years past with great horror authors. Joe Hill, whose latest, "King Sorrow," is out now, recommends several great spooky reads. And Victor LaValle ("Lone Women") talks about the book he has read the most in his life: Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House." Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

Your hosts are finally entering Spooky Month and reading the psychological supernatural horror classic, The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. Sara has complaints that (for once) don't boil down to “it's horror and I don't like horror”. Lilly agrees?! They talk about unfulfilling explanations, female agency, and relationship roller coasters.Find us on Discord / Support us on PatreonThanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

In Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill, Holly Sherwin is living every writer's dream. She has grant money to finish her new play, which she uses to rent a mansion in the woods so that she can work in peace. The only problem? The mansion is Hill House, a living, breathing bad place that promises to turn Holly's dream into a nightmare.   Recommended in this episode: Laura Purcell's The Silent Companions   NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses.    UP NEXT: Interview with author Jen Julian  Buy our books here, including our newest Toil and Trouble.

Losers Jenn Adams, Rachel Reeves, and Ana Marie Cox check into Bates Motel on a rainy night to discuss Robert Bloch's Psycho, the 1959 best-selling novel that Alfred Hitchcock turned iconic the following year for Universal Pictures. Danse Macabre is a recurring feature of The Losers' Club that journeys through all the books that influenced Stephen King. (You know, as he listed in 1981's Danse Macabre. Ahem, hence the name of this series.) In the past, we've catalogued Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, Peter Straub's Ghost Story, and Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Send us a textWelcome to Read Before Midnight, your passage into the strange and the sinister. Season 2 continues with Episode 4 – The Forgotten Place, Part One by W.H. Maxwell. Step into the Allegheny dusk, where four friends descend into a valley hiding a village that was never meant to be found.

In the shadow of Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain lies one of New England's most enduring mysteries, a dark chapter in American history that begins with a simple walk in the woods that ended in oblivion. On November 12, 1945, Middie Rivers, a 74-year-old hunting guide who knew the wilderness like the back of his weathered hands, told his companions he'd walk ahead to their camp. He never arrived. His disappearance would mark the beginning of a five-year period during which five people would vanish in the same remote area of southwestern Vermont, leaving behind grieving families, baffled search parties, and questions that remain unanswered to this day.This episode delves deep into the haunting history of what author Joseph Citro would later christen the Bennington Triangle, exploring not just the famous disappearances but the centuries of strangeness that preceded them. We begin with the ancient Abenaki people, who considered the mountain cursed and warned of a place where the four winds met in eternal struggle, where a malevolent stone could swallow the unwary whole. Their oral traditions speak of the mountain as sacred and dangerous in equal measure, a dwelling place of their god Tabaldak and home to creatures that walked upright like men but were something altogether different. The narrative traces the doomed attempts at settlement from Benning Wentworth's blind charter in 1761 through the brutal logging era that briefly brought prosperity and violence to the mountain. We examine the murders that stained the settlement's history, including the chilling 1892 killing of John Crowley by Henry McDowell, who claimed voices in his head commanded him to kill, and who later escaped from a mental hospital to vanish as completely as the mountain's later victims. The story follows Glastenbury's transformation from a rough logging town to a failed tourist resort, destroyed by flooding after just one season, and ultimately to Vermont's first unincorporated town, legally erased from existence in 1937.The heart of our investigation focuses on the five disappearances that would make the Bennington Triangle infamous. We explore each case in detail, from Paula Welden, the Bennington College sophomore whose vanishing in a bright red jacket inspired massive searches and the creation of the Vermont State Police, to James Tedford, whose impossible disappearance from a moving bus full of witnesses defies all rational explanation. We examine young Paul Jepson, the special needs child who spoke of nothing but the mountains for days before vanishing from his mother's truck, and Frieda Langer, the experienced hiker whose body mysteriously appeared seven months later in an area that had been thoroughly searched.Throughout the narrative, we weave together the various theories that have emerged over the decades to explain these disappearances.From the possibility of a serial killer stalking the mountain trails to indigenous legends of the Bennington Monster, from interdimensional portals and time slips to the more prosaic but no less terrifying reality of a wilderness that simply doesn't want human presence. We explore how the mountain's unusual geology, with its disorienting wind patterns and hidden sinkholes, might create natural traps that could swallow hikers without a trace.The episode also examines the cultural impact of the Bennington Triangle, from Shirley Jackson's psychological horror novel "Hangsaman" to modern paranormal investigations and the continuing reports of strange experiences on Glastenbury Mountain. We discuss contemporary encounters, including hikers who report inexplicable disorientation, time distortions, and the overwhelming feeling of being watched by something in the dense forest.We also take a look at recent incidents like the 2008 case of Robert Singley, who became lost on the same trail where Paula Welden vanished despite modern equipment and clear weather, finding the landscape seemed to change around him as he walked. Drawing from historical documents, newspaper archives, census records, and indigenous oral traditions, this comprehensive investigation presents the most complete picture possible of the Bennington Triangle mystery.We explore how a place that once housed 241 souls now officially contains just eight residents, how the forest has reclaimed most traces of human habitation, and how the mountain continues to exert its strange influence on those who venture onto its slopes.This is more than just a true crime story or a collection of ghost tales. It's an exploration of how landscapes can become legendary, how unexplained tragedies transform into folklore, and how some mysteries endure precisely because they resist solution.The Bennington Triangle stands as a reminder that even in our mapped and measured world, there remain places where people can simply step off the path and vanish forever, where the line between the possible and impossible becomes as twisted and unclear as a trail through dark Vermont woods.As we trace the history from ancient Abenaki warnings through colonial settlement, industrial exploitation, and modern mystery, one truth emerges clearly: some places don't want to be inhabited, some stories don't want to be solved, and some people who walk into the woods are never meant to walk out again.

This week, we're doing something a little different. Normally I'm the one asking the questions, but today, in the name of bringing new voices into the conversation, I'm handing the mic over to someone who usually works behind the scenes on the Lit With Charles podcast – Liv. In this episode, she speaks with British author Amy Twigg, whose fantastic debut Spoilt Creatures follows a 30-something woman as she joins an all-women commune in rural Kent, and falls down the rabbit hole in all that entails. I hope you enjoy it!Lit with Charles loves reviews. If you enjoyed this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a review of your own, and follow me on Instagram at @litwithcharles. Let's get more people listening – and reading!Amy Twigg's four books were:Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara (2018)Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin (2018)The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (1959)

Rachel is joined by Youth Services Librarian Audrey to discuss spooky reads for the fall season, and they inadvertently end up DESTROYING the Brothers Grimm. Check out what we talked about: Books mentioned: "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James with listenalike podcast "Shadows at the Door," specifically "The Troughton Stories." "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson with readalike "This House Is Haunted" by John Boyne. "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell with listenalike podcast "Scare You To Sleep." "The Death of Jane Lawrence" by Caitlin Starling with readalike "The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters. "Behind the Yellow Door" by Christine Campbell Thompson with readalike "And the Dead Spake" by E.F. Benson. "Rumpelstiltskin" by the Brothers Grimm retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky with readalike "Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version" by Philip Pullman. Briefly mentioned were "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski, "The Girl with the Green Ribbon" by Alvin Schwartz, and "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Anderson. To access complete transcripts for all episodes of Not Your Mother's Library, please visit: oakcreeklibrary.org/podcast The following music was used for this media project: "Moonlight Hall" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech – Music and also Graph Paper ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Deed - Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons Check out books, movies, and other materials through the Milwaukee County Federated Library System: countycat.mcfls.org hoopladigital.com wplc.overdrive.com oakcreeklibrary.org

Bringing Down The House Stephen King invited audiences back to network television in 2002 for a three-night tour of his haunted house, Rose Red. But did the author successfully refurbish Shirley Jackson's classic Hill House tale by having an autistic girl be the one to stoke the appetite of a soul-eating Seattle mansion? Or is sitcom star Nancy Travis working from an outdated blueprint as she sends five paranormal investigators down warped hallways and rooms with bad histories to find scientific proof of the supernatural?  Listen Now to learn if the hosts flip over this property.

We are on a summer hiatus, but we will be returning with brand-new episodes soon! Please enjoy this classic episode on "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson.   Shirley Jackson once again proves that she is the queen of creepy short stories, this time with her story “The Summer People.” The story starts idyllic, like many of Jackson's stories. The Allisons are a wealthy older couple who summer in a cabin by a lake in rural New England. Their picturesque existence quickly turns nightmarish, however, when they decide to extend their trip and stay past Labor Day.

Hacer click aquí para enviar sus comentarios a este cuento.Juan David Betancur Fernandezelnarradororal@gmail.comHabía una vez en un pueblo del centro mismo del pais una tradición que después de muchas generaciones aún se conservaba en aquella región dedicada exclusivamente a la agricultura. Era la  mañana del 27 de junio  y esta amaneció clara y soleada con el calor lozano de un día de pleno estío; las plantas mostraban profusión de flores y la hierba tenía un verdor intenso. La gente del pueblo empezó a congregarse en la plaza, entre la oficina de correos y el banco, alrededor de las diez; en algunos pueblos había tanta gente que la lotería duraba dos días y tenía que iniciarse el día 26, pero en aquel pueblecito, donde apenas había trescientas personas, todo el asunto ocupaba apenas un par de horas, de modo que podía iniciarse a las diez de la mañana y dar tiempo todavía a que los vecinos volvieran a sus casas a comer.Los niños fueron los primeros en acercarse, por supuesto. La escuela acababa de cerrar para las vacaciones de verano y la sensación de libertad producía inquietud en la mayoría de los pequeños; tendían a formar grupos pacíficos durante un rato antes de romper a jugar con su habitual bullicio, y sus conversaciones seguían girando en torno a la clase y los profesores, los libros y las reprimendas. Bobby Martin ya se había llenado los bolsillos de piedras y los demás chicos no tardaron en seguir su ejemplo, seleccionando las piedras más lisas y redondeadas; Bobby, Harry Jones y Dickie Delacroix acumularon finalmente un gran montón de piedras en un rincón de la plaza y lo protegieron de las incursiones de los otros chicos. Las niñas se quedaron aparte, charlando entre ellas y volviendo la cabeza hacia los chicos, mientras los niños más pequeños jugaban con la tierra o se agarraban de la mano de sus hermanos o hermanas mayores.Pronto empezaron a reunirse los hombres, que se dedicaron a hablar de sembrados y lluvias, de tractores e impuestos, mientras vigilaban a sus hijos. Formaron un grupo, lejos del montón de piedras de la esquina, y se contaron chistes sin alzar la voz, provocando sonrisas más que carcajadas. Las mujeres, con descoloridos vestidos de andar por casa y suéteres finos, llegaron poco después de sus hombres. Se saludaron entre ellas e intercambiaron apresurados chismes mientras acudían a reunirse con sus maridos. Pronto, las mujeres, ya al lado de sus maridos, empezaron a llamar a sus hijos y los pequeños acudieron a regañadientes, después de la cuarta o la quinta llamada. Bobby Martin esquivó, agachándose, la mano de su madre cuando pretendía agarrarlo y volvió corriendo, entre risas, hasta el montón de piedras. Su padre lo llamó entonces con voz severa y Bobby regresó enseguida, ocupando su lugar entre su padre y su hermano mayor. La lotería -igual que los bailes en la plaza, el club juvenil y el programa de la fiesta de Halloween- era dirigida por el señor Summers, que tenía tiempo y energía para dedicarse a las actividades cívicas.El señor Summers era un hombre jovial, de cara redonda, que llevaba el negocio del carbón, y la gente se compadecía de él porque no había tenido hijos y su mujer era una gruñona. Cuando llegó a la plaza portando la caja negra de madera, se levantó un murmullo entre los vecinos y el señor Summers dijo: «Hoy llego un poco tarde, amigos». El administrador de correos, el señor Graves, venía tras él cargando con un taburete de tres patas, que colocó en el centro de la plaza y sobre el cual instaló la caja negra el señor Summers. Los vecinos se mantuvieron a distancia, dejando un espacio entre ellos y el taburete, y cuando el señor Summers preguntó: «¿Alguno de ustedes quiere echarme una mano?», se produjo un instante de vacilación hasta que dos de los hombres, el señor Martin y su hijo mayor, Bax

350 - Shirley Jackson won far more awards than most others,but after today's two stories, would you want to marry her?Husbands beware as we all tuck in for her "What a Thought" & "Got a Letter from Jimmy."

350 - Shirley Jackson won far more awards than most others, but after today's two stories, would you want to marry her? Husbands beware as we all tuck in for her "What a Thought" & "Got a Letter from Jimmy."

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on indie games, by looking at Papers, Please. We talk a bit about Lucas Pope, its creator, and then turn to the game's mechanics and themes. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: One or two playthroughs Issues covered: tactile job simulation games, empathy and commentary, tactility and user interfaces, how it plays, the mechanics post-day, plate-spinning, all the various things you have to check, a nerve-wracking experience, stamping passports, turning the screws, paying vs not paying for things, stereotypical regimes, indie games coming up with new interesting mechanics and AAA borrowing them, justifying denial of entry, having your options limited by bureaucracy, ways that days can end, the timer pressure, dehumanizing the process, describing the board game Train, opportunities for subversion, coins, being recruited for espionage, a precedent for weapon power mechanics. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, Cart Life, Persuasive Games, Ian Bogost, Fez, Naughty Dog, Helsing's Fire, Return of the Obra Dinn, Moida Mansion, Playdate, Mars After Midnight, The Lives of Others, Fumito Ueda, Uncharted 2, Balance of Power, Chris Crawford, Seamus McNally, Train, Brenda Romero, Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy, To A T, Pidy Retsym/Mystery Dip, Quoggim Logglehoggle, NES, Cave Story, Blaster Master, Daisuke Amaya, Outer Wilds, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: Twitch: timlongojr  Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com  (show notes updated to attempt to force AP to update)

Thank you for downloading the Trap One podcast. On this episode US Jason introduces Mark to the celebrated American writer Shirley Jackson and discuss her enrolment in the Whoniverse in the recent Doctor Who book, Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box. The Lottery can be read here; Watched here; and listened to here. You can order Shirley Jackson and Chaos Box here #ad.  

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 29, 2025 is: quibble • KWIB-ul • verb To quibble is to argue or complain about small, unimportant things. Quibble can also mean "to evade the point of an argument by making trivial or frivolous objections." // Why are you quibbling over such a small amount of money? // People ignored the main point of the speech and quibbled about its length. See the entry > Examples: "In 'Louisa, Please Come Home,' one of Jackson's most deeply affecting stories, a girl on the cusp of womanhood runs away from home and disappears into a new life in a new city, where she finds a room in a boarding house and a job in a stationery store. Jackson's agent, who judged it 'a powerful and brilliant horror story,' quibbled with her decision to leave the character's motive unexplained, but it's clear that Louisa doesn't need a reason to run away. She wants simply to disappear …" — Ruth Franklin, introduction to The Lottery and Other Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson, 2025 Did you know? There's not much to quibble about when it comes to the origins of the verb quibble: it followed the noun quibble, meaning "an evasion of or shift from the point" and "a minor objection or criticism," into the language in the mid-17th century. That word is likely a diminutive of a now-obsolete noun quib, also referring to an evasion of or shift from the point. Quib, in turn, likely comes from a form of Latin qui, meaning "who," that is also a distant relation of our word who.

On today's solo episode we have a casual fan interaction and questionnaire to start things but then we get into the  REAL REAL, and I'm talking R E A L with it. I don't even want to spoil it. I barely want to put the names down but I feel I'd be doing a disservice to everyone if I didn't source my shit so if they loved something they know what it is and its title and author. FUCK. What a dilemma. When I talked to Barbara Manatee, I knew we'd have a good time, but I didn't know I'd have such a HARD time after(eyyo). Nah, credit where credit is due, if this solo episode is going to go down in history on Lotsa Pasta for going hard, I want to make sure I'm doing it right. Here's the stories we're reading today, some of the best of the best, the cream of the crop. Let's do this. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (1:08:04)The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1:25:55)Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates (1:52:58)I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (2:40:23)Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/LOTSA_PASTAAND KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/lotsa_pastaMERCH: www.redbubble.com/people/elcapitanmuerte/portfolioYOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UCxoqIN-fkfdlmGEjWujypxwSOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/lotsa-pasta/(But also available on all major platforms like iTunes, Spotify, Google, Amazon, etc!)FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/LPCaptainDeathFOLLOW ON REDDIT: www.reddit.com/r/LotsaPasta/Featuring wonderful ambient music from our fam in Sweden: CryoChamber, givin' us all the ooky-spooky tunage. Follow: @cryo-chamberThank you!“Astral Alley“ is not my song. I do not claim ownership. Credit and All rights are reserved by the owners.

Two wickedly witty women writers, separated only by the Atlantic! This episode, Gray and Mark carry on their American adventures and discuss the similarities and differences between the works of Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson. Specifically focussing on Shirley's Swinging era - The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle!A handful of tickets are still available⁠ for our first ever live episode recording in Torquay this September as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival 2025!You can find us on Instagram ⁠@Christie_Time⁠. We are also on Bluesky at ⁠christietime.bsky.social⁠. Our YouTube account is @TheSwigingChristies. Please subscribe to the podcast so you're notified every time an episode drops!Please also consider giving us a star rating and/or reviewing us on your podcatcher of choice.Our website is ⁠ChristieTime.com⁠.The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.Next episode: we're heading to Belfast!00:00:00 - Opening titles00:00:40 - Introductory chat, recorded in Greenwich, New York00:05:40 - Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson00:20:25 - Swinging Shirley work-by-work01:03:00 - Next episode, how to get in touch01:05:02 - Closing titles01:05:30 - CodaSolutions revealed! - Five Little Pigs, Third Girl

The year of Mike Flannigan continues with what made him a household name: the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House. We are joined by our friend Robyn to break down all ten episodes and dive into trauma, jump scares, family drama, plot twists, ghosts, mental illness, the myth of the forever home and so much more. If you didn't find all of the lurking spirits in the background, check out the Screen Rant YouTube video. For further reading, check out these sources: "'She exposed the fragility of so-called civilized life': why Shirley Jackson's horror speaks to our times." by Elizabeth Hand The Ambiguity of Existence of Ghosts in Haunting of Hill House and Turn of the Screw and their Netflix Adaptations by Chantal de Heer You can follow Robyn on Instagram and be sure to check out The Scariest Things podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shirley Jackson, Elspeth Barker, and your emails – welcome to episode 139 of Tea or Books?! Can you believe we’ve been going for ten years? It’s wild to me! In the first half of the episode we compare two gothic-inspired

Even though we know that some past episodes have probably spent too much time talking about awards, our latest chat begins with some thoughts on—well, awards. With Nebulas, Hugos, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, World Fantasy, etc., there are just too many to ignore. We soon drift off into other topics. Gary is looking forward to hosting a panel discussion at the Locus Awards, and is fascinated by Kemi Ashing-Giwa's 2023 novel The Splinter in the Sky, which leads into a discussion of how space opera-like stories have evolved over generations, what else we've read lately, how short story contracts have changed lately, whether there is a dearth of core SF or just an explosion of fantasy, and why Murderbot feels more like classic SF than many franchise properties. As usual, a laser-like focus on nothing in particular.

There's new stirrings in the world of Doctor Who production, one being an official BBC search for new producers of an new animated Doctor Who series for Time Tots on CBeebies, and a much more tenuous rumour about discontent between Russell T Davies, a potential streaming suitor, and a push for a grittier, aged-up series. Join the Three Who Rule who cogitate on the possibilities of Doctor Who's future, along with Big Finish news, the improbable return of 80s laff-fest Spaceballs, and Part One of our Classic Series Commentary for The Visitation! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon Doctor Who – The TARDIS is set to land on CBeebies Doctor Who pre-school animation: invitation to pitch Doctor Who Season 2 coming August 18 to DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook (UK) Report: BBC and RTD at ddds with potential new Doctor Who partner Excerpt from the new Fifteenth Doctor novel ‘Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box', available now Big Finish Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Last Queen of the Nile, due Sep 2025 What if the Classic Doctors Regenerated like Modern Day Doctors? by Rob Ritchie Spaceballs 2 announcement Pik-Sen Lim died Commentary: The Visitation Part One

Mrs Christie went to Washington, and Dr Aldridge and Mr Brown are following suit! This episode, we get the train to Washington DC to uncover the truth about how an American Christie fan would REALLY have experienced a Swinging Christie…A handful of tickets are still available⁠ for our first ever live episode recording in Torquay this September as part of the International Agatha Christie Festival 2025!You can find us on Instagram ⁠@Christie_Time⁠. We are also on Bluesky at ⁠christietime.bsky.social⁠.Please subscribe to us, and  rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice.Our website is ⁠ChristieTime.com⁠.The Swinging Christies is a Christie Time project by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown.Next episode: we look at Agatha Christie alongside a contemporary - Shirley Jackson!00:00:00 - Opening titles00:00:43 - Introductory chat00:01:44 - Agatha, Washington and America in the 1960s, down the Mall 00:09:41 - Discoveries in the Library of Congress00:43:37 - Wrap up, the National Museum of African American History and Culture00:47:24 - Next episode, how to get in touch00:49:09 - Closing titles00:49:36 - Coda

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about secrets that are just beneath the surface of the narratives and lives of the characters.  In Walter Dean Myers' “The Beast in the Labyrinth” children must conceal their real selves in a hostile society.  The reader is Jelani Alladin.  And the Shirley Jackson classic “The Lottery” demonstrates how the inconceivable can become the norm in a community if everyone accepts it.  The reader is Amy Ryan. 

Rose Red is the rare mini-series that Stephen King wrote directly for the screen and is essentially his stab at playing in Shirley Jackson's Hill House sandbox. With a wild cast that includes both Nancy Travis and Julian Sands and Melanie Lynskey and a story that feels like a Greatest Stephen King Hits compilation, Rose Red is a fascinating one to look back on.

Shirley Jackson (1946-present) is an accomplished American physicist and mathematician who dedicated her career to studying the particles that make up our universe and to improving and supporting the diversity of people studying and dedicating themselves to the sciences. For Further Reading: Jackson, Shirley Ann | Women of the Hall The Remarkable Career of Shirley Ann Jackson | MIT Technology Review Full Event Video: An Evening With Shirley Ann Jackson This month, we’re talking about Architects. These women held fast to their visions for better futures, found potential in negative space, and built their creations from the ground up. History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn’t help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should. Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Adrien Behn, Alyia Yates, Vanessa Handy, Melia Agudelo, and Joia Putnoi. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran. Follow Wonder Media Network: Website Instagram Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.