Description: Advance praise for Let Me Tell You "Remember the chilling excitement of reading [Shirley] Jackson's 'The Lottery' for the first time? You'll have that same experience over and over again with this new collection." -- Library Journal Praise for Shirley Jackson "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written." --Donna Tartt "Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders." --Dorothy Parker, Esquire "[Jackson plumbs] the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common." -- San Francisco Chronicle "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary current. . . . She was unique." -- Newsweek "[Jackson] will make you laugh, contemplate your own mortality, and scare you into a wakeful night. And she appears to have done it all equally deftly." -- The Miami Herald "Jackson's fiction is some of the most important to come out of the American literary canon." -- The Denver Post " The Haunting of Hill House and James's The Turn of the Screw are the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years." --Stephen King "[Jackson is] terribly funny. Her observations are dry, her dialogue shockingly fresh and absurd, and her best stories can make you think of a collaboration between James Thurber and a secular Flannery O'Connor." --Jonathan Lethem "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable. It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." --A. M. Homes "Jackson spares no one her precise, perceptive eye. Sadder still is how much I recognize myself, from my worst moments, in one character or another. What saves me from despair is Jackson's wit, her deadpan demolition of human foibles. For me, that kind of reading experience is essential, and when I discovered Shirley Jackson, it was as if she'd understood what I wanted, what I needed, and set it all down on the page long before I was even born. That recognition is profound, life changing. . . . Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular." --Victor LaValle, Slate

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