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

from vivycakes

Creepy, ominous, and a bit sad. Mary Katherine "Merricat" & Constance Blackwood are agoraphobic sisters who have been happy with their secluded life in their large home, isolated from the village. They live with Merricat's cat Jonas and their uncle Julian, who is permanently ill from ingesting ar...

from richardderus

The Book Report: A classic of American suspense literature, this is the story of the Blackwood family, told by Mary Katherine "Merricat", of her life with elder sister Constance and elderly uncle Julian. They live in the biggest, grandest house around their New England village, surrounded by vill...

from Kayla-Marie

"Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? No, said Merricat, you'll poison me. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!" This book was so amazing! I still can't get that song/rhyme out of my head. The scene when all the townfolk are sing...

from AlexTheHunn

Shirley Jackson, arguably one of the finest American writers of the mid-twentieth century, creates terror out of so very little. She takes the everyday, the ordinary and makes it creepy. This is the story of two young sisters who live together. We learn that their parents have died and we begin t...

from clfisha

Cue lengthy but wonderful quote: My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had...