Shirley Jackson
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Sep 12, 2026
Olga RavnGUEST
It was planted as a way to show an example of having a common and invincible enemy, which is quite interesting today when you look at the laws that are being made today.
Olga RavnGUEST
So but but tell me, like, what is like when you're taught about Salem in school? I actually read a Salem school book for American children that Shirley Jackson wrote.
Olga RavnGUEST
Did you know? That seems right.
Olga RavnGUEST
Yeah.
Shane HawkGUEST
I think Stephen's working on that right now.
Shane HawkGUEST
Man, Shirley Jackson, big influence.
Shane HawkGUEST
The Haunting of Hill House, one of the best openers, in my opinion.
Shane HawkGUEST
It's so atmospheric and so well-written.
Kate HergottHOST
Well, the first one that I was going to mention, the cover is so cool.
Kate HergottHOST
and it had been on my radar and then clay mcleod um shared something last night about it and said that it is like shirley jackson meets tony morrison and i was like say less it's called the unhaunting by micaiah johnson well um miss ma'am what is this what is this i need this yeah so like here i i just wrote like two sentences um chantelle and her friends believe they found the perfect sanctuary in abernathy house a seemingly peaceful home where nothing bad has happened in 170 years and where simply living there mysteriously begins to heal them.
Kate HergottHOST
But when ghosts emerge, despite the house's spotless history, they uncover the sinister cost of its supernatural tranquility and discover there's something far worse than a haunted house, one that desperately wants to be haunted.
Kayla HardyGUEST
okay um right sounds like there's a sentient house going on and you already know i'm all about that um yes okay like location as horror as in like the memory the collective memory of things that have which i believe in i'm like yeah it's something bad happened there that it just sinks in like a sinkhole right in there yep
Scott WeatherlyHOST
This idea of science being introduced into the supernatural obviously isn't new by 1972, but there are celebrated examples of this.
Scott WeatherlyHOST
One of the ones is Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hell House.
Scott WeatherlyHOST
which is, you know, I think it's from the fifties, I think 54, maybe 50.
Scott WeatherlyHOST
So that is very much about sort of like a psychologist bringing together a bunch of people to put them in a house as allegedly sought and then to, to analyze it and to assess it.
Anna RoseHOST
Am I correct in understanding those two influences? And are there any others that really kind of spoke to you when you first drafted Marla?
Jonathan JanzGUEST
big time absolutely yeah and you know with we have always lived in the castle first of all one of the best titles ever secondly one of the greatest writers ever uh and thirdly like what a great book and what a great story like it's just so interesting shirley jackson was an absolute badass And I so when I taught the lottery, it's funny, I've gone all these years teaching and I never taught the lottery until just like three years ago.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
And I did this deeper dive into her than I had done before.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
And just kind of like learning about what she had experienced And it's just so interesting and so infuriating.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
And it's just I'm not saying that no man ever goes through anything.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
Obviously, we all go through things, but it's just really.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
And so I guess when I think of we have always lived in the castle and when I think of Shirley Jackson, particularly, I think of all these kind of social problems.
Jonathan JanzGUEST
just incredible things that are abnormalities but were normalized like things that were just so unjust and strange that she had to battle against and i feel like she expressed that so interestingly in that book and so i think maybe some of that dna found its way into marla and then you talked about carrie oh my gosh so yeah with carrie white um it's just like that it yeah guys are bullied sometimes but i just feel like carrie was bullied in in different ways and just in very unique ways and and so with marla what i love about it you asked if there were any other kind of influences And so there was like the Carrie White and then her mother and then Marla and Irene, her mother.
Travis WalterGUEST
Like, you know, a lot of those great writers back then, and they didn't get, they didn't get high praise.
Travis WalterGUEST
I mean, you, gosh, you had Shirley Jackson.
Travis WalterGUEST
You had, you know, these women who were writing, uh, Patricia Highsmith, who wrote Strangers on a Train.
Travis WalterGUEST
Uh, these women were doing incredible work, um, and they weren't really getting recognized for it.
Val CaniparoliGUEST
Or The Lottery, which I've known.
Val CaniparoliGUEST
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, which It was amazing, a short story that stuck with me forever.
Val CaniparoliGUEST
And then the light bulb went on and wow, let's do value that.
Val CaniparoliGUEST
And Jekyll and Hyde have always been interested in the old monster film, Black and White.
Matthew BoothHOST
Yeah, not quite sci-fi, but he directed one of my favourite films, which is The Haunting.
Matthew BoothHOST
based on shirley jackson haunting of hill house
Ayesha KhanGUEST
which is a
Matthew BoothHOST
superb ghost story film um which shows that wise can do that sort of you know characters in one location dealing with each other whilst other stuff is happening around them you know it shows that he's capable of doing that because that is a magnificent film that and the sound of music as you say
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
Now ask anyone who has spent four years at Bennington and they'll tell you that Jennings Hall has a pulse.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
They'll tell you the piano keys press themselves down in the locked rooms, that the basement makes your stomach drop the second your foot touches the bottom step, and that this grimstone manor was the direct, real-world inspiration for the greatest haunted house novel ever written, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
It's an absolutely incredible story.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
It's atmospheric, it's terrifying, and it ties a literary icon right to the local soil.
11 MINS LATER
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
Quince.com slash haunted.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
In the autumn of 1945, a beat-up car rolled into North Bennington.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
Behind the wheel was a young writer in her late 20s named Shirley Jackson.
Christopher FeinsteinHOST
And sitting beside her was her husband, the sharp-tongued literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman.
ScottHOST
We've got some Arthur Makon.
ScottHOST
Um- We got some Shirley Jackson.
ScottHOST
It is lots of cool stuff coming up, so thanks for keeping in touch-
JoshHOST
And Mabouza.
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