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In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Penguin edition includes a Foreword by Francine Prose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story \u003ci\u003eThe Lottery \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. 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