“We Live in the Castle” is an American gothic novel, a real psychological thriller. It was selected by Times magazine as one of the 10 best novels of the year, went through 13 editions. At the center of the novel are two sisters whose relatives mysteriously died... Shirley Jackson writes about the horrors and evil hidden in our daily existence, about the struggle that is invisibly waged among themselves people connected by ties of kinship, about the secret wars taking place within one human soul.

“This book is a hellish brew of horror and suspense, it will bewitch you, and you will surely become its next victim. Shirley Jackson's greatest gift was not to create a world of fantasy and horror, but rather to find the grotesque in the ordinary." New York Times