I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
Shirley JacksonAll cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
Shirley JacksonI can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
Shirley JacksonI was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.
Shirley Jackson