Read Shirley Jackson’s Eerily Contemporary Letter About Fear

Author Shirley Jackson often responded to readers’ letters; this one, written in 1962 after republication of her historical fiction for juveniles, The Witchcraft of Salem Village, seems uncannily prescient for our times. –Laurence Jackson Hyman, editor of the forthcoming The Collected Letters of Shirley Jackson * ______________________________________ From the book THE LETTERS OF SHIRLEY JACKSON […] The post Read Shirley Jackson's Eerily Contemporary Letter About Fear first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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