Seven of the best scary stories of recent years

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Johnson's latest novel is Sisters.

At the Guardian, she tagged seven of the best scary stories of recent years, including:

For many readers, Jackson is the best of all horror writers, a master of tension and unravelling sanity. In the biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin unravels some of the myths that surrounded the writer and also shows us a picture of a life that in some ways contains many of the things Jackson was writing about. Plagued with a fear of the outside world and an obsessive, panicked need to write, Jackson at times appears as one of her own characters – paranoid, compulsive, afraid.

Read about another entry on the list.

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life is one of Leah Schnelbach's ten sci-fi and fantasy must-reads from the 2010s.

The Page 99 Test: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life.

--Marshal Zeringue