Shirley Jackson was known to get under the skin. Her most famous work, the short story "The Lottery," concerned a women who wakes to the fact that she is to be stoned to death in the village square. It still brings chills when you consider that a sleepy New England town could suddenly resort to communal violence. Jackson's high-rent, gothic, horror novels, including the frequently adapted "The Haunting of Hill House," concern the emotional damage done to women in a society wh