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Book Review of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Helpful Score: 3


Shirley Jackson always leaves you feeling haunted. This is a story about the Blackwoods who have been accused and acquitted of the murder of their family by arsenic. They live in this huge house, trying to stay away from the villagers until cousin Charles appears - trouble. Shirley Jackson's books are always understated, but always leave me up at night wondering and thinking. They're just so eerie.