Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...

Shirley Jackson


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Say Morg--you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts? There's only a little left.

Shirley Jackson


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Oh Constance, we are so happy.

Shirley Jackson


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Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Shirley Jackson

Stichwörter: shiver



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All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.

Shirley Jackson


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On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Shirley Jackson


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Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.

Shirley Jackson

Stichwörter: suburbs 248 pillar-of-salt



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I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

Shirley Jackson


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You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

Shirley Jackson

Stichwörter: wash macabre creepy sugar



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Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

Shirley Jackson


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