Rather Haunted News Today

A look to Israel's journalists, businessmen, writers and politicians.

The pages of horror novels are filled with eerie and gory descriptions of ghosts and monsters. But while this spookiness is strictly relegated to the page

Josephine Decker's movie Shirley has elements of a biopic but is largely a fictionalized portrayal of famed author Shirley Jackson.

BENNINGTON — When folks mention the name of writer Shirley Jackson, what often comes to mind is “The Lottery” or “The Haunting of Hill House.”

Paranormal investigator Nandor Fodor angered spiritualists, earned praise from Sigmund Freud, and inspired one of the most famous ghost stories of all time.

Sally Rooney defended her decision to refuse the translation of Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Israeli publisher Modan, but Israelis Foreign Ministry told the Telegraph she was impeding peace.

Sally Rooney was asked by Israeli publisher Modan to translate her new book -Beautiful World, Where Are You. But she rejected the request because she supports a cultural boycott of Israel.

Can a house be born bad? That’s the question Shirley Jackson asks in her classic novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Released in 1959, the gothic novel follows four strangers who converge on a purportedly haunted house to “scientifically” seek out evidence of the paranormal. Things rapidly devolve and the characters—in particular, the novel’s lonely protagonist, Eleanor—realize, too late, that they’re in over their heads. Upon its release, the novel sold briskly, earning Jackson a...

Dec 18, 2020 NEW YORK (AP) — Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 years. Jackson was just 48 when she died, in 1965, and left behind an extensive backlog of unreleased material. Her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, made little effort to organize her papers beyond giving them to the Library of Congress, so Hyman and his sister, Sarah Hyman DeWitt, took on the job. They have made several trips to Washington, sorting through boxe...

Rarely seen Shirley Jackson story is finally published by Hillel Italie, The Associated Press Posted Dec 17, 2020 8:45 am EDT Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 8:58 am EDT NEW YORK — Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 years. Jackson was just 48 when she died, in 1965, and left behind an extensive backlog of unreleased material. Her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, made little effort to organize her papers beyond giving them to the...