Classics Horror Mystery 1962

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Published in Spanish as Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a…

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What it is

A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · pitch-black comedy

What happens in it

Unreliable narrator Closed setting

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
  • you like a story shut inside one place
  • you like a book that leaves you uneasy

Maybe not if…

  • you're after something comforting

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