The author offers a humorous account of her experiences as she, her husband, and their four young children moved from an apartment in the city to a big house in rural Vermont.
The author offers a humorous account of her experiences as she, her husband, and their four young children moved from an apartment in the city to a big house in rural Vermont.
Humorous essays, partly fictional, about the life of a faculty spouse, the mother of four children, in a Vermont town.
Horror: the 100 best books
by Jones, Stephen, Chesterton, G. K., (Gilbert Keith), Lovecraft, H. P., (Howard Phillips), Aickman, Robert, Haining, Peter, Ford, John M., Campbell, Ramsey, Hoffmann, E. T. A., (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), James, Henry, King, Stephen, Strieber, Whitley, Wilson, Colin, Bierce, Ambrose, Sullivan, Jack, Gardner, John, Pratchett, Terry, Morrell, David, Gaiman, Neil, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Webster, John, Jackson, Shirley, Ryman, Geoff, Ballard, J. G., Ellison, Harlan, Watson, Ian, Ashley, Michael, Lindsay, David, Moorcock, Michael, Laws, Stephen, Evans, Christopher, Lewis, Matthew, Taylor, Bernard, Jakubowski, Maxim, Amis, Kingsley, Golding, William, Tuttle, Lisa, Nolan, William F., Haldeman, Joe W., Clute, John, James, M. R., (Montague Rhodes), Barker, Clive, Lumley, Brian, Pirie, David, Jones, Diana Wynne, Matheson, Richard, Hartwell, David G., Belloc, Hilaire, Bailey, Paul, Nicholls, Peter, Stableford, Brian, Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, Greenland, Colin, Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, Boucher, Anthony, Etchison, Dennis, Powers, Tim, Dalby, Richard, Masterton, Graham, Blackburn, John, Benson, E. F., (Edward Frederic), Kosinski, Jerzy, Langford, David, Marlowe, Christopher, Shakespeare, William, Bradfield, Scott, Godwin, William, Daniels, Les, Sladek, John Thomas, Austen, Jane, Yolen, Jane, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Tremayne, Peter, Maturin, Charles, Kilworth, Garry, Hogg, James, Poe, Edgar Allan, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Tessier, Thomas, Gotthelf, Jeremias, Disch, Thomas M., Sue, Eugene, McDowell, Michael, Melville, Herman, Williamson, Jack, Stout, Tim, Haggard, H. Rider, Chambers, Robert W., (Robert William), Wolfe, Gene, Wells, H. G., (Herbert George), Stoker, Bram, Chetwynd-Hayes, R., (Ronald), Winter, Douglas E., Conrad, Joseph, Klein, T. E. D., Machen, Arthur, Blackwood, Algernon, Hodgson, William Hope, Subotsky, Milton, Onions, Oliver, Copper, Basil, Hay, George, Tem, Steve Rasnic, Kafka, Franz, Howard, Robert E., (Robert Ervin), Cabell, James Branch, Wagner, Karl Edward, Visiak, E. H., Kaye, Marvin, Endore, S. Guy, Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, Bowen, Marjorie, Bloch, Robert, Laing, Alexander, Lamb, Hugh, Walpole, Hugh, Fanthorpe, R. Lionel, Lewis, C. S., (Clive Staples), Trumbo, Dalton, Wollheim, Donald A., Smith, Clark Ashton, Page, Gerald W., Leiber, Fritz, Woolrich, Cornell, Ackerman, Forrest J., Karloff, Boris, Derleth, August, McCammon, Robert R., Charnas, Suzy McKee, Sarban, Matheson, Richard Christian, Lansdale, Joe R., Bradbury, Ray, Gallagher, Stephen, Brennan, Joseph Payne, Cave, Hugh B., Kneale, Nigel, Parry, Michel, Williams, Tad, Dick, Philip K., Dann, Jack, Gardner, Craig Shaw, Aldiss, Brian W., (Brian Wilson), Simmons, Dan, Wilson, F. Paul, (Francis Paul), Blatty, William Peter, Skipp, John, Brunner, John, Garfield, Frances, Wellman, Manly Wade, Marasco, Robert, Sarrantonio, Al, Spector, Craig, Grant, Charles L., Schow, David J., Straub, Peter, Hjortsberg, William, De Lint, Charles, Hutson, Shaun, Carroll, Jon, Garnett, David, Laymon, Richard, Williamson, Chet, Harris, Thomas, Williamson, J. N., Lee, Samantha, Irwin, Robert, Edwards, Malcolm, Banks, Iain, Monteleone, Thomas F., Holdstock, Robert, Bishop, Michael, Bryant, Edward, Cole, Adrian, Hadji, R. S., Ackroyd, Peter, Smith, Guy N., Bertin, Eddy C.
Shirley Jackson's classic The Lottery portrays a small town that gathers to hold its yearly lottery, a barbaric game of chance. Each head of household draws a slip, and the family with the marked slip will lose a member to stoning by the townsfolk.
A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.
Brave new worlds: dystopian stories
by Robinson, Kim Stanley, Vaughn, Carrie, Gaiman, Neil, Doctorow, Cory, Tilson, Cody, Jackson, Shirley, Gilbow, S. L., Haines, Joseph Paul, Le Guin, Ursula K., Rickert, M., (Mary), Wilhelm, Kate, Ryman, Geoff, Finlay, Charles Coleman, Ballard, J. G., Bacigalupi, Paolo, Morrow, James, Irvine, Alexander, (Alexander C.), Bradbury, Ray, Kiernan, Caitlín R., Ellison, Harlan, Valentine, Genevieve, Langan, Sarah, Williamson, Matt, Dick, Philip K., Lindsley, Heather, Vonnegut, Kurt, Silverberg, Robert, Card, Orson Scott, Tolbert, Jeremiah, Mastroianni, Joe, Castro, Adam-Troy, Buckell, Tobias S., Kaftan, Vylar, Reed, Robert, Pelland, Jennifer, Liu, Ken
Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Kate Wilhelm, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, and Sarah Langan.