I didn't know about this film until a few years ago, when some friends in my age group mentioned seeing it in school.
That's so neat! I am happy to hear evidence of it in the wild and hope it was not traumatizing. That's probably not a realistic hope.
Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village was one of my most beloved childhood books (which I checked out again and again from the Sherman Oaks Public Library), but I didn't make the connection between it and Jackson's fiction until much later.
I read that one too! And do not believe I made the connection at the time, either, because I read a lot of nonfiction in elementary school without taking much note of who wrote it unless it was Gerald Durrell or the D'Aulaires. Just now I had to look up that Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols (1972) was written by Edna Barth even though I could picture the illustrations. But I never forget that Bradbury wrote The Halloween Tree (1972).
I don't know why I read Jackson's short fiction growing up and not her novels until I was in college when I picked up and fell in love with We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962). The short stories were around the house, including randomly in sf anthologies of which my parents had a ton. I still haven't even read all her novels, although I did read Let Me Tell You (2015) once my mother had had it first. rushthatspeaks gave me The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
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I didn't know about this film until a few years ago, when some friends in my age group mentioned seeing it in school.
That's so neat! I am happy to hear evidence of it in the wild and hope it was not traumatizing. That's probably not a realistic hope.
Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village was one of my most beloved childhood books (which I checked out again and again from the Sherman Oaks Public Library), but I didn't make the connection between it and Jackson's fiction until much later.
I read that one too! And do not believe I made the connection at the time, either, because I read a lot of nonfiction in elementary school without taking much note of who wrote it unless it was Gerald Durrell or the D'Aulaires. Just now I had to look up that Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols (1972) was written by Edna Barth even though I could picture the illustrations. But I never forget that Bradbury wrote The Halloween Tree (1972).
I don't know why I read Jackson's short fiction growing up and not her novels until I was in college when I picked up and fell in love with We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962). The short stories were around the house, including randomly in sf anthologies of which my parents had a ton. I still haven't even read all her novels, although I did read Let Me Tell You (2015) once my mother had had it first.