It was her deft touch in balancing both, while hinting at outside forces imposing themselves on everyday life that is now considered one of her greatest strengths as a writer, as well as her lasting contribution to the horror genre.
Much of her other work, while observational and dryly witty, was seated on the border between the real and surreal. While Jackson may not strictly be branded as a “horror writer,” there is no doubt that her most famous works–the novel The Haunting of Hill House and the short story “The Lottery”–had a massive impact on the genre and remain two of its milestones. Obviously ‘The Lottery’ was something I read, like many people, in high school.
“Somebody had asked me that question and I was trying to remember when I first encountered her work. “I think I have always been interested in Shirley Jackson,” says Sarah Gubbins, who adapted the screenplay for Shirley from a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell. Although her career and life were both uncommonly brief, Jackson’s output has endured and she is one of those rare writers whose work is held in high esteem by both literary critics and horror enthusiasts. In the new film Shirley, Elisabeth Moss plays a fictionalized version of acclaimed author Shirley Jackson, whose two-decade career yielded six published novels, two memoirs, and around 200 short stories.
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