Shirley Jackson's memoir is considered to be one of the best ghost stories ever written.
 The book also sold 64,150 print copies and 55,850 audio and eBook copies in Australia in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling memoir since records began in 2002 and overtaking Darren Lockyer's autobiography
 While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales

