Just an ordinary day

Author

Shirley Jackson

Call Number

• FICTION JACK (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, c1996.

Physical Description

xii, 388 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes

A collection of new and previously unpublished stories.

Contents

• The smoking room
• I don't kiss strangers
• Summer afternoon
• Indians live in tents
• The very hot sun in Bermuda
• Nightmare
• Dinner for a gentleman
• Party of boys
• Jack the Ripper
• The honeymoon of Mrs. Smith (versions I and II)
• The sister
• Arch-criminal
• Mrs. Anderson
• Come to the fair
• Portrait
• Gnarly the king of the jungle
• The good wife
• Devil of a tale
• The mouse
• My grandmother and the world of cats
• Maybe it was the car
• Lovers meeting
• My recollections of S. B. Fairchild
• Deck the halls
• Lord of the castle
• What a thought
• When Barry was seven
• Before autumn
• The story we used to tell
• My uncle in the garden.

• (cont.) : On the house
• Little old lady in great need
• When things get dark
• Whistler's grandmother
• Family magician
• The wishing dime
• About two nice people
• Mrs. Melville makes a purchase
• Journey with a lady
• The most wonderful thing
• The friends
• Alone in a den of cubs
• The order of Charlotte's going
• One ordinary day, with peanuts
• The missing girl
• The omen
• The very strange house next door
• A great voice stilled
• All she said was yes
• Home
• I.O.U.
• The possibility of evil.