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Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), a theoretical physicist, was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. at MIT. In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed her as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During her tenure, Jackson has instit...

Shirley Jackson is most often associated with the chilling short story "The Lottery". First published in The New Yorker in 1948, it immediately met with an unprecedented public reaction, generating a tremendous amount of mail, almost all of it negative....

Shirley Jackson's name is most often associated in readers' minds with the haunting short story "The Lottery," which was originally published in 1948 and has since become a frequently anthologized American classic. To those familiar with the rest of Jack...

There's a little part of Chris Fleck that really enjoys scaring the hell out of people. That partly explains why, the last few weeks, he's been willing to give up several nights a week to stand in a dark room doing just that....

(HORROR) A Warner Bros. release of a Dark Castle Entertainment production. Produced by Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver, Gilbert Adler. Executive producers, Dan Cracchiolo, Steve Richards. Co-producer, Terry Castle. Directed by William Malone. Screenplay, Dick Beebe, based on a story by Robb...

Discusses Shirley Jackson's novel "The Haunting of Hill House." Explores how the concept of 'uncanny,' as suggested by Freud, is portrayed in the work.