Books published by publisher The Viking Press, New York

Dust jacket notes: “With her own special witchery, Shirley Jackson has once again fashioned a strange, terrible, and beautiful tale. From the very first page, a mystery hangs over the three people living in the big old house on the hill. Shunned by the villagers, they live their private life behind closed doors. As their story quietly and deftly unfolds, the reader is led into a situation both startling and macabre. The drama of its denouement, with its unforeseen aftermath, has the quality of a horror tale disguised in the most deceptive innocence. But telling the ‘story’ of a book by Shirley Jackson is as meaningless as trying to describe in words what is conveyed to the eye by a surrealist painter. For it is not just the subject about which she chooses to write, or even her ability as an immensely gifted storyteller, that distinguishes her work; it is her unique vision, illuminating the familiar.”

Large Viking Hardcover - 1946 with 204 pages, size: 12" x 9". Contents: Opening Chat - The Approach to Figure Drawing - The Mannikin figure - The Bones and Muscles - Block Forms, Planes, Foreshortening, and Lighting - Drawing the Live Figure: Method and Procedure - The Standing Figure - The Figure in Action: Turning and Twisting -Foward Movement: The Tipped Line of Balance - Balance: Rhythm, Rendering - The Kneeling, Crouching, Sitting Figure - The Reclining Figure - The Head, Hands, Feet - The Complete Figure in Costume - Closing Chat.