The Summer People — Shirley Jackson (Audiobook)

Shirley Jackson, a prolific author in her time, is best remembered today for two specific works: Her short story “The Lottery,” which appeared in the New Yorker in 1948 to both acclaim and backlash, and her novel The Haunting of Hill House (1959), widely regarded as among the best ghost stories ever written. Yet her most unsettling work of fiction—and arguably her most deftly crafted—is a relatively obscure tale, “The Summer People,” which first appeared in Charm in 1950 and was later anthologized in Best American Short Stories 1951.