Missing Girl Penguin Modern — Shirley Jackson

Of course no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that s missing Malice paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease Penguin Modern fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary international flavour Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan New York s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space