I am so glad to see some Shirley Jackson love on here! She reminds me a lot of a secular Flannery O'Connor (the two also look strangely similar). Everything Jackson wrote was brilliant, but We Have Always Lived in the Castle has a special place in my heart since that was my first introduction to the author. She's been criminally understudied in academia (save for the widely anthologized "The Lottery" which is read more to teach students about the form of short stories than anything else), and I haven't met that many people outside of university who have read her for fun (or even read her at all). Ruth Franklin released a biography of Jackson a few years ago that has a lot of fascinating information (she was working on a children's story when she died), and I've seen a number of CFPs for Jackson-based panels at major lit conferences, and Penguin re-released several of her out of print novels a few years ago, so, a step in the right direction for a Shirley Jackson literary revival, I guess. The Haunting of Hill House is getting yet another remake (this time for Netflix), so that may also lead to a bit of increased interest in Jackson. I am planning to have my students read one of her short stories in my Stephen King class since SK includes her work in his list of novels important to the genre of horror in Danse Macabre.
What Stephen King novel/short story and Shirley Jackson novel/short story do you think pair the best?