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Cover of “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · 1962

160 pages

Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her sister and uncle in a large house outside a village that despises them, after the rest of the family died years earlier from poison. When a cousin arrives hoping to claim the estate, the careful order of Merricat's world is broken.

Tropes

Gothic Manor, Unreliable Narrator, Small Town Secrets, Creeping Dread, Gothic

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