pt. 1. The short fiction. The lottery as a short-story cycle
Come along with me: three decades of stories
The uncollected stories: seeking the self
Notes to part 1. pt. 2. The writer. Introduction
Notes on Shirley Jackson / Stanley Edgar Hyman
Biographical material / Shirley Jackson
"Talk with Miss Jackson"/ Harvey Breit
Notes on an unfashionable novelist; The unloved reader; "Experience and fiction"; Biography of a story; "Notes for a young writer" / Shirley Jackson
Letters from Shirley Jackson to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson
Shirley Jacksonʼs outlines for stories; "Elizabeth"; "I know who I love". pt. 3. The critics. Introduction