The Sundial [Paperback]

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel,The Sundial

When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. This is Shirley Jackson at her best. This novel of 12 people in a lonely house awaiting the end of the world will keep you up all night.

—Pensacola News Journal

The Sundialis entertaining, absorbing and disturbing.
—Chicago Tribune

Shirley Jackson(1916–1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was first published in theNew Yorkerin 1948. Her works available from Penguin Classics includeWe Have Always Lived in the Castle,The Haunting of Hill House, andCome Along with MeandLife Among the Savagesavailable from Penguin.

Victor LaValleis the author of the short story collectionSlapboxing with Jesus, the novelBigMachine, and several other works of fiction. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the PEN/Open Bookl³Y