We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Living in the “castle” are the surviving Blackwood family members: 18-year-old Mary Katherine “Merricat” and her cat, Jonas, 28-year-old Constance, and their old Uncle Julian, who spends his days sitting in the sunny garden in his wheelchair or obsessing over the details of his memoir. Six years ago, someone murdered the rest of the family via arsenic poisoning, and the nearby village is rife with speculation about which remaining Blackwood could’ve done such a thing. Darkly humorous and deliciously atmospheric, Shirley Jackson’s 1962 gothic mystery cleverly tells the myth of a foreboding castle-like house—and its suspect residents—from the inside. A classic choice for October!