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How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind

Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection; meaning

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Image generated by Stable Diffusion, using the opening paragraph from Shirley Jackson's 'Haunting of Hill House'
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A great writer can create a reading experience so sticky that it embeds itself in your thought, making it di…

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