The most famous of these stories is probably “Charles,” originally published in Mademoiselle, in which her oldest son Laurie goes off to Kindergarten and returns with tales of the class bad boy, Charles, and his antics. Humor Authors Like Shirley JacksonĪlthough they are less well-known now, Shirley Jackson made a great deal of her career writing sweet, funny family stories for magazines such as Harper’s and Good Housekeeping. Sisters doing the unthinkable to protect each other ( Imaginary Girls) haunted houses ( The Walls Around Us and A Room Away From the Wolves) and a breathtaking examination of mental illness ( 17 & Gone). Suma’s dreamlike, eerie prose would be enough to make her a Shirley Jackson read-alike, but then there’s her subject matter. (Full disclosure: Nova is a friend of mine.)
I hope these ten authors like Shirley Jackson will satisfy your need for more Jacksonesque stories! Harrow, whose debut The Ten Thousand Doors of January made me feel like I’d just read a previously undiscovered Shirley Jackson novel, even though they do not have much in common, or Natsuko Imamura, whose first novel in English translation, The Woman in the Purple Skirt, I am currently devouring and getting a real Come Along With Me vibe from). For this list I have chosen authors whose work is similar to Jackson’s in scope, though of course I have by necessity left out several wonderful authors whose work reminds me of hers in other ways (such as Alix E. The fact is, no matter how you discovered her work, there is a finite amount and eventually you will run out and want something that reminds you of her.
And that means many people are also looking for other authors like Shirley Jackson.
Bernice Murphy - not to mention the 2018 Stacie Passon film We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which Hyman produced the 2020 Josephine Decker movie Shirley, based on the 2014 Susan Scarf Merrell novel and the 2018 Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House - she’s back in our collective conscience. Between the 2015 release of Let Me Tell You, which consists of many never-before-published stories and essays compiled and edited by two of her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt the 2016 release of Ruth Franklin’s incomparable biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life and last month’s release of The Letters of Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman with gothic literature expert Dr.
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