Shirley Jackson
2 works in the index. Averaged across them, Shirley Jackson operates in THE SLOW BLEEDER territory — built on slow-burn dread and restraint over gore.
The body-of-work fingerprint
The mean of every scored work, which is a blunter instrument than any single title but says something a filmography cannot.
PACE OF FEAR
011
DREAD
THE THREAT
066
HUMAN
VISCERA
012
RESTRAINT
ERA BIAS
009
ANALOG
TONE
031
BLEAK
REALITY ANCHOR
046
GROUNDED
Widest range: THE THREAT, spanning 43 points across the work. That is where Shirley Jackson varies most.
The work
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959 · Book
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson · 1962 · Book
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