

Heavy cover creasing paper pull to interior front cover store stamp to interior backcover 3" x 1" piece cut off top edge of first 2 front end pages. Everyone else in my family is dead." > This is a reading copy. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Her works available from Penguin Classics include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, Come Along with Me, Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, and The Sundial, as well as Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons available. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. Shirley Jackson (19161965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story The Lottery, which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance.

Goodread notes = "My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. No date, circa late1970's, (original cover price = $1.25 ) 173 pages Cover picture of girl looking through hole in makeshift fence, holding poison plant.
