Editing Shirley Jackson (section)

===''The Haunting of Hill House'' and other works===
In 1954, Jackson published ''[[The Bird's Nest (novel)|The Bird's Nest]]'' (1954), which detailed a woman with multiple personalities and her relationship with her psychiatrist.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=333}} One of Jackson's publishers, [[Roger Williams Straus Jr.|Roger Straus]], deemed ''The Bird's Nest'' "a perfect novel", but the publishing house marketed it as a psychological horror story, which displeased her.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=336}} Her following novel, ''[[The Sundial]]'', was published four years later and concerned a family of wealthy eccentrics who believe they have been chosen to survive the end of the world.{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=351}} She later published two [[memoir]]s, ''[[Life Among the Savages]]'' and ''[[Raising Demons]]''.

Jackson's fifth novel, ''[[The Haunting of Hill House]]'' (1959), follows a group of individuals participating in a paranormal study at a reportedly haunted mansion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://writershouses.com/guest/shirley-jackson-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-a-house|title=Shirley Jackson Doesn't Have a House|author=Susan Scarf Merrell|date=August 10, 2010|website=writershouses.com|access-date=October 16, 2018|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017001728/http://writershouses.com/guest/shirley-jackson-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-a-house|url-status=dead}}</ref> The novel, which interpolated supernatural phenomena with [[psychology]],{{sfn|Franklin|2016|p=312}} went on to become a critically esteemed example of the haunted house story,<ref name="ContempAuthors"/><ref>{{cite web|website=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703298004574455551864001062 |title=Chilling Fiction|date=October 29, 2009|access-date=December 30, 2017}} {{subscription required}}</ref> described by [[Joanne Harris]] as "not only the best haunted-house story ever written, but also a quiet subversion of the ingénue trope in horror fiction, with a nod to [[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre]]'s ''[[No Exit|Huis Clos]]'' with its toxic menage a trois"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Joanne |date=2016-12-14 |title=Shirley Jackson centenary: a quiet, hidden rage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/14/shirley-jackson-centenary-quiet-hidden-rage-joanne-harris |access-date=2024-09-11 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and by [[Stephen King]] as one of the most important horror novels of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite web|author=Missing, Sophie|date=February 6, 2010|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/07/haunting-hill-house-shirley-jackson|title=Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson|website=The Guardian|access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> Also in 1959, Jackson published the one-act children's musical ''The Bad Children'', based on ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Bad Children: A Musical in One Act for Bad Children|author=Jackson, Shirley|year=1959|isbn= 978-1-583-42211-3|publisher=Dramatic Publishing}}</ref>