A posthumous collection of Shirley Jackson's uncanny short fiction, gathering seventeen stories of quiet dread, domestic menace, and small-town cruelty — including 'The Possibility of Evil' and 'Louisa, Please Come Home.'
Books mentioned in Dark Tales (1)
Silas Marner by George Eliot: “"She had read Silas Marner aloud almost daily for the past ten years, marked tests in a dainty blue pencil, and still blushed dreadfully at the age of thirty-four." — from the story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," describing Miss Matt's years of teaching.”