Come Along with Me Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures

"One of the most revered of American short story writers and novelists, Shirley Jackson is best known for the 1948 classic short story "The Lottery." Her gothic visions of small-town America employ quick, unexpected twists that turn an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. But horror was only one arena of her talent, and this eclectic collection of fiction and essays reveals the full spectrum of the literary genius she exercised over three decades. It contains the unfinished novel Come Along with Me, on which Jackson was at work at the time of her death in 1965. The story, which narrates the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, stands on its own as one of her most accomplished and most psychologically probing works. This volume also includes sixteen short stories, including "The Lottery," and three lectures Jackson delivered at colleges and writers' conferences in her last years"--Cover page 4.