Come Along With Me

Come Along With Me is a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson. It contains sixteen short stories, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery",[1][2] three essays delivered by Jackson, and the incomplete novel of the same name on which Jackson was working at the time of her death.[3][4][5]

The collection was published by Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in 1968, three years after Jackson's death,[6][7] and includes a preface by him. It was listed by The New York Times Book Review among the best fiction of 1968.[8] In 2015 this book is in the collection of more than 1,000 libraries.[9]

Summary

The incomplete title work, Come Along With Me, is a narrative by a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman.[10] After the death of her husband, Hughie, Angela sells her house and personal belongings in order to move to a strange city, where she sets up a business as a medium in her new boarding house.

Adaptations

Joanne Woodward directed an adaptation of the novel Come Along with Me as a television movie in 1982, with a cast headed by Estelle Parsons and Sylvia Sidney.

References

  1. ↑ Charles L. Crow (10 September 2013). A Companion to American Gothic. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-1-118-60842-5.
  2. ↑ "Why You Should Read Shirley Jackson". Slate, By William Brennan
  3. ↑ Zita Dresner. Redressing the balance. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 316–. ISBN 978-1-61703-468-8.
  4. ↑ Barbara Levy (13 September 2013). Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. pp. 53–54, 69–. ISBN 978-1-134-38593-5.
  5. ↑ Richard Bleiler (1 January 2003). Supernatural Fiction Writers: Peter Ackroyd to Graham Joyce. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 484. ISBN 978-0-684-31251-4.
  6. ↑ Rafferty, Terence. "Her Darkest Places". New York Times Book Review, 26 August 2010.
  7. ↑ S. T. Joshi; Guillermo Del Toro (1 October 2013). American Supernatural Tales. Penguin Publishing Group. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-1-101-66275-5.
  8. ↑ Darryl Hattenhauer (1 January 2003). Shirley Jackson's American Gothic. SUNY Press. pp. 195–. ISBN 978-0-7914-5608-8.
  9. ↑ "Come along with me : part of a novel, sixteen stories, and three lectures". WorldCat
  10. ↑ DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Shirley Jackson & The Haunting of Hill House. July 1999 By Paula Guran
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