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“I am a singularity”: “Event Horizon” by Sunny Moraine

October 13, 2020June 14, 2022

The house in the story – a living thing that demands to be fed – is a metaphor for difference and the other.

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“What did he have to report?”: “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson

October 4, 2020June 14, 2022

Jackson’s story of the commute from hell is one of her most nerve-shattering, Kafkaesque tales.

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“I was thinking about my neighbours”: Shirley Jackson on her literary inspiration

October 3, 2020June 14, 2022

Shirley Jackson on the inspiration for her classic 1948 chiller, “The Lottery.”

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