We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

152 pp. Afterword by Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn. Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret. Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.