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Title	:	The Sundial
Author	:	Shirley Jackson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	January 7th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Classics. Gothic

The Sundial Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

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Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end....

Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she reports the vision she had there, the family is engulfed in fear, violence, and madness. For Aunt Fanny's long-dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!

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Original Title:	The Sundial
ISBN:	0140083170 (ISBN13: 9780140083170)
Edition Language:	English

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there's something about shirley jackson's works that speak deeply to me. I think it's the feeling of unsettlement, the almost-quite-right-but-not-so-much atmosphere, that dry and wicked humor. reading any of her books is just a delight to me.the sundial precedes most of the author's famous stories but there are so many of her usual traits here. it's still very gothic, very family-centered and very funny. actually, this might be her funniest from what I've read!but my favorite favorite thing

Shirley, Shirley, Shirley. Every time I pick up one of your books I brace myself for disappointment, knowing that not every novel can be a 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'. This wasn't that, but by god, you get close.The concept of this novel is fantastic. A group of inherently unlikable, spoiled, petty characters become convinced that they are receiving messages from beyond the grave warning of the planet's destruction, and wall themselves up together in the big old ancestral home to wait



Shirley Jackson was such a kooky genius. Emphasis on genius. Also, emphasis on kooky. I'm learning that there is a whole world of Shirleyana beyond that one story which shall remain nameless because everyone read it in high school.The premise of this one is simple but also highly bizarre. A wealthy family, plus assorted hangers-on, waits around in a big old house for what they believe to be the imminent apocalypse. Most of the family members are pretty awful in one way or another, and they

"... but when I think about it this new world is going to have Aunt Fanny and my grandmother and you and Essex and the rest of these crazy people and my mother and what makes anyone think you're going to be more happy or peaceful just because you're the only ones left?" The thing about the blurb for this is that it doesn't mention just how funny this book is. Not pleasantly funny, though there's something close to drawing room comedy here; it's wicked, possibly misanthropic, sardonic, cruel

In Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 a man named Jake Epping finds a portal that allows him to travel to 1958. To be specific. . . it transports him to September 9, 1958 @ 11:58am. And, no matter how many times Jake goes into the portal and emerges back into the present day, it is always 1958 when he returns. Once Jake commits to entering into the portal for good, he adjusts to life in 1958 and prefers it. He can't quite get over how much better the food tastes, how much more polite children are to

Having read The Bird's Nest last month, I expected another quality read from Shirley Jackson. Unfortunately, The Sundial failed to grab me. It should have been intriguing: Aunt Fanny's brother dies, but his ghost appears to her with warnings of an upcoming apocalypse, in which only the people inside the family mansion will survive.OK, this was written decades ago, but the family believes the warning so quickly that it doesn't feel right. Someone does try to skip out, but after she's assaulted