Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
First published: 1962
Description: Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

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Subjects: mystery, first-person narrative, Fiction, Literature, Gothic fiction, psychological fiction, Sisters, Murder, Investigation, Social isolation, Gothic novels, Fiction, psychological, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Fiction, horror, Fiction, gothic, Horror tales, Teenagers, Castles
People: Merricat Blackwood, Constance Blackwood, Charles Blackwood, Julian Blackwood