We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Supercontext: an autopsy of media

This 1962 novel is being reappraised by critics and fans as a creeping meditation on 1950s housewives, agoraphobia, and good old-fashioned New England persecution.

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• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Additional Resources:

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson – a house of ordinary horror
• The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
• Flavorwire Author Club: Shirley Jackson’s Haunting Final Novel, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’
• SILVER, M. (2013). Is It Real? On Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Southern Review, 49(4), 665–667.
• Savoy, E. (2017). Between as if and is : On Shirley Jackson. Women’s Studies, 46(8), 827.
• BOYD TONKIN. (2015, July 29). Her dark materials: how Shirley Jackson became the ‘sorceress at the sink.’ Independent (UK).
• Shirley Jackson. (2020). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle: A Prelude to a Myth
• How 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' By Shirley Jackson Novel Made Me Love Horror — Even Though I Hate Being Scared
• The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson