Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales

I. Influence and Inheritance

'A Relator of Stories': Supernatural Presences in Joseph Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) and the Short Fiction of Shirley Jackson - Miranda Corcoran (University College Cork, Ireland)

'The most seductive of mirages': The Weird American Dream in Selected Short Stories by Shirley Jackson and Joyce Carol Oates - Joseph Norman (Brunel University, UK)

Demon lovers, Bluebeard's wives: Folkloric intertexts and horror in Jackson and Machado - Erika Kvistad (University of South-East Norway, Norway)

Negotiating Witchcraft in Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction - Dara Downey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

II. Bodies and Minds

Nightmares, Neurosis and Clinical Psychology in the Short Stories of Shirley Jackson - Alice Vernon (Aberystwyth University, UK)

Meeting the Devil: Diabolic Influence and Diabolic Resistance in Shirley Jackson's James Harris Stories - Robert Zipser (Independent Researcher, USA)

'Missing' Women: Spectral Displacement in Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction - Robert Lloyd (Cardiff University, UK)


III. Space and Place

Into the Gothic Wilderness: The (Un)natural World in 'Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons' and 'The Man in the Woods' - Alissa Burger (Culver-Stockton College, USA)

The Anxious City in Shirley Jackson's 'Pillar of Salt' and 'The Tooth': A Phenomenology of the Uncanny - Luke Reid (Dawson College, Canada)

On her way to the grocery store: shopping, alienation and the lost housewife in Shirley Jackson's short stories - Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
IV. Genre and Form

'I Could Do With a Change': Shirley Jackson's Engagement with Postwar Science Fiction - Janice Lynne Deitner (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

'This Gloomy Kind of Story:' Shirley Jackson's Conte Cruels and the Horror Tale in the Post-Pulp Era - Kevin Knott (Frostburg State University, USA)

Myth and Ritual in Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction - Samantha Landau (University of Tokyo, Japan)

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