WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE: Shirley Jackson Folio Society LE

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE
 
Shirley Jackson
 
Folio Society
 
Limited Edition - 500 Copies
 
This Being No.80
 
Illustrated by Angie Hoffmeister
 
Afterword by Donna Tartt - Signed By Both
 
 
‘I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.’
 
This very special limited edition of We Have Always Lived in the Castle is strictly limited to 500 copies and is signed by the artist Angie Hoffmeister and by legendary author Donna Tartt, who has written an illuminating afterword for Shirley Jackson’s dark masterpiece. Presented in a spectacular illustrated clamshell box and accompanied by a stunning art print, this unforgettable tale of poison, secrets and domestic witchcraft also features seven colour illustrations, a striking binding design and illustrated endpapers. As delicious and as deadly as a bowl of arsenic-laced blackberries, there is no finer edition of the book Joyce Carol Oates called a ‘masterpiece of Gothic suspense’.
 
 
ALL THE OMENS SPOKE OF CHANGE
 
‘Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.’
 
Six years ago the majority of the Blackwood family died agonising deaths in the middle of a lavish dinner, poisoned by a liberal dose of arsenic in their sugar. Now the Blackwood daughters live a reclusive life with their invalid uncle. Constance cooks and cleans, never straying further than their garden, and ever vigilant Merricat watches over their home, keeping the dreaded villagers out and prowling the borders with her cat, Jonas. For Merricat it is the perfect life, the only blemish on her existence the weekly trips to buy groceries from the people who despise her. But change is coming in the form of avaricious Cousin Charles, and Merricat will have to act to save her world, regardless of the destruction it will bring.
 
Bound in screen-printed cloth
 
Set in Arno with Zachar display
 
200 pages
 
Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations, including 2 double-page spreads
 
10 integrated tailpieces
 
Screen-printed endpapers
 
Clamshell box with central magnetic opening, covered in printed paper
 
Print for framing printed on Natural Evolution paper
 
8¾˝ x 5½˝