Shirley Jackson (9 kníh)

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  Shirley Jackson Dům na kopci CZ

  Do starého domu zvaného Hill House přijíždí čtveřice pátračů: odborník v okultních vědách doktor Montague, jeho asistentka Theodora, dědic domu Luke a také mladá dívka jménem Eleanor, o níž se téměř nic neví. Společně se rozhodnou přijít na kloub podivným úkazům, jimiž je dům proslulý. Ten však má s těmito nebohými tvory své vlastní plány. Oldschoolová hororová klasika patří k nejznámějším dílům Shirley Jacksonové.…

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  Shirley Jackson Just an Ordinary Day EN

  An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this brilliant collection of short stories.

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  Shirley Jackson Let Me Tell You EN

  From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and…

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  Shirley Jackson Life Among the Savages

  As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In Life Among the Savages, her caustically funny account of raising her children in a ramshackle house in Vermont, ...

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  Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House EN

  Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro s favorites, from Mary Shelley s Frankenstein and Ray Russell s short story…

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  Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House EN

  Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant;Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or…

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  Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House

  Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; ...

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  Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House

  Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, ...

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  Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ott (ilustrácie) We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate...

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