Gothic & Haunted Houses

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

The Blackwood family lives in sinister isolation after a mysterious poisoning killed most of their clan. Young Mary Katherine and her sister Constance maintain their strange household rituals until a cousin's arrival threatens their carefully constructed world. Shirley Jackson's masterpiece plunges readers into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, creating a deliciously unsettling portrait of a perverse and possibly murderous family.

More Gothic & Haunted Houses

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• The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman
• Titus Groan — Mervyn Peake
• One Dark Window — Rachel Gillig
• Belladonna — Adalyn Grace
• Let the Right One In — John Ajvide Lindqvist
• The House of Gardenias — Isabel Cañas
• Dark Tales — Shirley Jackson

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