How Shirley Jackson became the 'sorceress at the sink'

As for many readers, it took Hollywood to alert me to the Gothic genius of Shirley Jackson. In 1963, between West Side Story and The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise came to the UK. At Ettington Park in Warwickshire, he found an ideally spooky location for one of the few classic tales of psychological terror (as opposed to mere slasher-horror) in the mainstream movie canon.