Come Along With Me is a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson. It contains sixteen short stories, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery", three essays delivered by Jackson, and the incomplete novel of the same name on which Jackson was working at the time of her death.
Contents
The collection was published by Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in 1968, three years after Jackson's death, and includes a preface by him. It was listed by The New York Times Book Review among the best fiction of 1968. In 2015 this book is in the collection of more than 1,000 libraries.
Summary
The incomplete title work, Come Along With Me, is a narrative by a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman. After the death of her husband, Hughie, Angela sells her house and personal belongings in order to move to a strange city, where she sets up a business as a medium in her new boarding house.
Adaptations
Joanne Woodward directed an adaptation of the novel Come Along with Me as a television movie in 1982, with a cast headed by Estelle Parsons and Sylvia Sidney.