![]() They end up staying with Fred's mentor, Stanley Hyman, a famed literary critic, and his equally famous wife, Shirley Jackson. The protagonist of Merrell's novel is the newly married (and pregnant) Rose Nemser, who moves to Vermont with her husband, Fred, a graduate student at Bennington College. It has now been adapted by Director Josephine Decker into a darkly meditative psychological thriller filled with the kind of slow-building existential dread that is a hallmark of Jackson's work. Both Stephen King and Neil Gaiman cite her as an influence, and novelist Susan Scarf Merrell was so captivated by this literary figure that she penned an entire novel about her, Shirley, in 2014. Elisabeth Moss stars as a fictionalized version of author Shirley Jackson in the new film, Shirley.Īuthor Shirley Jackson might not quite be a household name, but her work has been haunting American psyches for decades. ![]()
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