Lucky for Aunt Fanny, on that very same day she happens to hear the disembodied voice of her deceased father. Forster’s Miss Bartlett, is threatened out of her family home by her megalomaniac sister-in-law, she is quite rightfully distressed. When Aunt Fanny, a rather ditsy spinster whose passive aggressive martyr act brought to mind E. They were charged with the future of humanity when they came forth from the house it would be into a world clean and silent, their inheritance.” “The house would be guarded during the night of destruction and at its end they would emerge safe and pure. In The Sundial, perhaps Shirley Jackson’s most comical novel, twelve rather disagreeable individuals are cooped together in a mansion waiting for the end of the world. “I mean, why should I figure I’m so special, the world is going to end while I’m around?”
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