We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Because there's just not enough love on tumblr for Shirley Jackson's final novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Run by cattink.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) dir. Stacie Passon

[kafuka-after-hours]

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.

We have always lived in the castle (2018) by Stacie Passon

[kafuka-after-hours]

Merricat Blackwood and her beliefs.

[throwaninkpot]

Constance Blackwood is what happens when you’re permanently stuck in customer service mode.

[cinemphatic]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) dir Stacie Passon

[jettreno]

“hello and welcome back to buzzfeed unsolved, this week we take on the gruesome poisoning of the blackwood family”

[luthienne]

I would cover her with leaves, like children in a story, and keep her safe and warm. Perhaps I would sing to her or tell her stories; I would bring her bright fruits and berries and water in a leaf cup.

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Constance Blackwood - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Merricat Blackwood - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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[prettycakemachine]

I’m easing into fall/spooky recipes with a simple one: pecan and rum pound cake with blackberries! Inspired by We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The sugar on the blackberries (probably) contains no arsenic. 

RECIPE: http://prettycakemachine.com/pecan-rum-pound-cake-we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle/

[unchildhood]

SHIRLEY JACKSON x KEVIN LUCBERT (@kevinlucbert)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962);

Man on the Moon (2016), 21 x 29.7cm, ink on paper

[dakotadanger]

It makes me really happy that we’re somehow in the renaissance of Shirley Jackson screen adaptations, and therefore Shirley Jackson appreciation. 

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) is about two sisters and their uncle who live in a house on a hill. Constance cooks meals and cleans the house. Merricat, her younger sister, goes into town on Tuesdays to go shopping and avoid insults and stares from the townspeople. Uncle Julian is still writing his book about the night his brother and sister-in-law were poisoned at the family dinner table. When cousin Charles comes to visit, everything starts to change in the house and Merricat will use every spell she knows to stop it.

It’s been four years since I read the book, but this film feels exactly like it. You could call it a mystery thriller, or you could say it’s a sociological horror about mobs and abuse. Hell is other people, and Merricat just wants to live in peace on the moon with Constance.

This movie is great.

[votingdog]

sebastian stan is not charles blackwood please stop romanticizing an abusive character because you think he’s hot