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Mary Katherine Blackwood is the main character in Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The eighteen-year-old "Merricat" lives with her remaining family members, Constance and Julian Blackwood, on an estate in Vermont. As a result of a tragedy six years prior the family remains isolated from the surrounding village.
Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood 18-year-old Merricat is the youngest surviving member of the Blackwood family and the narrator of the novel. When she was twelve, her parents, aunt and younger brother died after being poisoned at dinner. Merricat is the only Blackwood who ventures into town to collect library books and buy groceries.
18-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives on the family estate with her older sister Constance and their ailing uncle Julian. Constance has not left the house in the six years since she was tried and acquitted of the death of her parents by poisoning. Every Tuesday, Merricat goes to the village to shop while the villagers harass her.
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"Louisa, Please Come Home" is a short story by Shirley Jackson first published in 1960 in May's edition of Ladies Home Journal entitled "Louisa, Please". [1] [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Come Along with Me (1968), [3] Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (edited by Sarah Weinman, 2013) [4] and Dark Tales (2016).
His character was inspired by a character of the same name from a folk ballad, "The Daemon Lover", about a woman who is persuaded by the Devil to run away with him. Ferri claims that Jackson's story collection displays "the presence of total and absolute evil in daily life", reinforced by the ominous James Harris.
"The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson.Published on December 18, 1965, in the Saturday Evening Post, [1] a few months after her death, it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery short story. [2]
In part one, the main character Margaret starts her summer vacation with her friend Carla Montague. The Montagues' home is a huge and beautifully decorated house that is set among lavish grounds. The house has many themed rooms; for example, there is a fan room, a painted room, and a room with a tile mosaic on the floor.