Horror Classics Book Club - WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE

For our May Horror Classics Book Club, we will be covering We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

Come prepared to share your thoughts during our lively discussion around the fire.

About We Have Always Lived in the Castle:

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer.

Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father’s fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will do whatever is necessary to protect their home.

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson’s brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.

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