“Here’s a creepy collection. The title story is one of the most famous short stories ever written, and while none of the rest of the stories in the book are so overtly horrific, almost each is a little study in the macabre. In a minor way, these superbly crafted stories are the great-great-grandchildren of Hawthorne’s “Twice-Told Tales.” New England housewife, mother, and part-time dabbler in witchcraft and the occult, Jackson relished peeling back the veil of “niceness” cloaked over America...”

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