English 120: Literature and Identity (Section 7)

Claire Bloom and Julie Harris in The Haunting (1963) It may be one of the scariest horror movies of all time -- at least among those that h...

 Laura Miller, in her  recent introduction to a new edition  of the book, describes it as "setting a trap" -- both for its main ch...

Original 1965 illustration for "The Bus" With each miniature masterwork, Shirley Jackson gets a little more "under our skin....

Shirley Jackson's short story " The Lottery " -- in which a town selects each year those of its fellows it will stone to death...

In a way, it's a nightmare as old as humanity: what if we, or the ones we love, turned out to be imposters? How would we know? What woul...

Scene from "The Case of Mr. Pelham" " It's usually considered bad luck to encounter your double, or your  doppelgänger  a...

 It's one of the grimmest takes on the age-old theme of the double or döppelganger -- here, one's replacements stand, zombie-like, a...