The place is New England. The setting is a huge isolated old mansion built to the specifications of an eccentric owner and filled with a strange and malevolent magic. The characters are a farmily who have come to Iive in this bizarre edifice, only to discover they are prisoners of its weird spell and puppets of its evil power. You will never forget THE SUNDIAL — even if you try.

"A delight to read... Don't miss it!" [Boston Herald]
"Marvelous!" [Chicago Tribune]
"Flawless!" [San Francisco Chronicle]

Shirley Jackson creates a world where the commonplace and the inexplicable, the ordinary and the occult, the light and the darkness of existence are unforgettably intermingled. You'll want to visit this enthralling world again and again…