DARK TALES

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Hill House stood abandoned six miles off the road. Four people came to learn its secrets. But whoever walked there, walked alone. For Hill House is gathering its powers - and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES

In this collection, the creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty, by a master of the short story.

RAISING DEMONS

Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really planning it) to move into a larger home, only to take the chaos - absent furniture, vanishing children, misbehaving refrigerators, an avalanche of books - right along with them.