Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Melanie R. Anderson (Delta State University, USA) 1. Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic Humor Bernice M. Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2. Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Shirley Jackson’s New Yorker Stories Ashley Lawson (West Virginia Wesleyan College, USA) 3. “You Didn’t Look Like You Belonged in This House”: Shirley Jackson’s Fragile Domesticities Michael Dalpe, Jr. (College of New Jersey, USA) 4. “Sharp Points Closing in on Her Throat”: The Domestic Gothic in Shirley Jackson’s Short Fiction L.N. Rosales (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) 5. Endless House, Interminable Dream: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Architecture and the Matrophobic Gothic Luke Reid (Dawson College, Canada) 6. Casting a Literary Spell: The Domestic Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson Alissa Burger (Culver-Stockton College, USA) 7. Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Queer Failures and Bunker Mentality in The Sundial Jill E. Anderson (Tennessee State University, USA) 8. Domestic Apocalypse in Shirley Jackson's The Sundial Christiane E. Farnan (Siena College, USA) 9. “I May Go Mad, but At Least I Look Like a Lady”: The Insanity of True Womanhood in Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial Julie Baker (Independent Scholar, USA) 10. Insisting on the Moon: Shirley Jackson and the Queer Future Emily Banks (Emory University, USA) 11. Shirley Jackson’s Merricat Story: Conjugal Narcissism in We Have Always Lived in the Castle Richard Pascal (Australian National University, Australia) 12. My House Is My Castle: On the Mutually Enabling Persistence of Familial Devotion and Defunct Economies in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle Allison Douglass (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) 13. Flipping Hill House: The Netflix Revision of Shirley Jackson's Landmark Novel Jessica McCort (Point Park University, USA) Index

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity makes compelling arguments about role of gender and domesticity within the work of one of the 20th century’s most indelible writers. A thoroughly entertaining and insightful collection, this book leaves me eager to revisit and more deeply explore Jackson’s stories and essays.