she was happiest and felt thesafest. A year later Jackson had significant literary success with the publication of her notable "ghost story", "TheHaunting of Hill House", which was dedicated to her mentor Leonard Brown. "Hill House" having received excellentreviews, went through several printings and was purchased by "The Reader's Digest" for its condensed books. Fouryears later, under the title "The Haunting", it became a successful movie. Through the years, Miss Jackson had gained agreat deal of weight. She had asthma and later, arthritis in the ends of her fingers. Worse yet, she had begun to sufferfrom attacks of anxiety. "Always a nervous and rather tense person, she was now under the care of a psychiatrist. Buteven during the worst periods, she never stopped working; she used her typewriter as therapy-to write pages and pagesof anything she pleased to unburden herself of depression into which she sank" (Friedman, 36). In 1962, "We HaveAlways Lived in the Castle", a novel she started three years earlier, was finished. It soon made the best-seller list, and"Time" magazine named it one of the ten best novels of the year. "Later, in 1965, daily living was now becoming morebearable for Jackson. Her anxieties were disappearing and her sessions with the psychiatrist were tapering off. The sadfact was that, though the mind was well again, the body was not. On the afternoon of August 8, 1965, Shirley Jacksonwent upstairs to take her usual nap. However, this time, Jackson did not awake." (Friedman, 40) In 1966, Jackson'shusband, Stanley Edgar Hyman edited an anthology, "The Magic of Shirley Jackson containing eleven short stories andthree complete books. Jackson's last novel, "Come Along With Me", which she was working on when she died, was tobe quite different from any of her other novels. Although "Come Along With Me" includes supernatural elements, theyare treated humorously. Since this novel was published in 1968, three years after Jac...
