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	The collection was published by Jackson's husband, [[Stanley Edgar Hyman]], in 1968, three years after Jackson's death,<ref>Rafferty, Terence. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Rafferty-t.html?_r=0 "Her Darkest Places"]. ''New York Times Book Review'', 26 August 2010.</ref><ref name="JoshiToro2013">{{cite book\|author1=S. T. Joshi\|author2=Guillermo Del Toro\|title=American Supernatural Tales\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ5rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213\|date=1 October 2013\|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group\|isbn=978-1-101-66275-5\|pages=213–}}</ref> and includes a preface by him. It was listed by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' among the best fiction of 1968.<ref name="Hattenhauer2003">{{cite book\|author=Darryl Hattenhauer\|title=Shirley Jackson's American Gothic\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jutboZnFCCsC&pg=PA195\|date=1 January 2003\|publisher=SUNY Press\|isbn=978-0-7914-5608-8\|page=195}}</ref> In 2013, ''Come Along with Me'' was reprinted by [[Penguin Classics]].<ref>{{Cite book \|title=Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel \|last=Jackson \|first=Shirley \|author-link=Shirley Jackson \|publisher=[[Penguin Books]] \|year=2013 \|isbn=978-0-14-310711-8 \|location=New York \|others=Foreword by [[Laura Miller (writer)\|Laura Miller]] \|editor-last=Hyman \|editor-first=Stanley Edgar \|editor-link=Stanley Edgar Hyman}}</ref>		The collection was published by Jackson's husband, [[Stanley Edgar Hyman]], in 1968, three years after Jackson's death,<ref>Rafferty, Terence. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Rafferty-t.html?_r=0 "Her Darkest Places"]. ''New York Times Book Review'', 26 August 2010.</ref><ref name="JoshiToro2013">{{cite book\|author1=S. T. Joshi\|author2=Guillermo Del Toro\|title=American Supernatural Tales\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ5rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213\|date=1 October 2013\|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group\|isbn=978-1-101-66275-5\|pages=213–}}</ref> and includes a preface by him. It was listed by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' among the best fiction of 1968.<ref name="Hattenhauer2003">{{cite book\|author=Darryl Hattenhauer\|title=Shirley Jackson's American Gothic\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jutboZnFCCsC&pg=PA195\|date=1 January 2003\|publisher=SUNY Press\|isbn=978-0-7914-5608-8\|page=195}}</ref> In 2013, ''Come Along with Me'' was reprinted by [[Penguin Classics]].<ref>{{Cite book \|title=Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel \|last=Jackson \|first=Shirley \|author-link=Shirley Jackson \|publisher=[[Penguin Books]] \|year=2013 \|isbn=978-0-14-310711-8 \|location=New York \|others=Foreword by [[Laura Miller (writer)\|Laura Miller]] \|editor-last=Hyman \|editor-first=Stanley Edgar \|editor-link=Stanley Edgar Hyman}}</ref>

	As of 2015, ''Come Along with Me'' was featured in the collections of more than 1,000 libraries.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/285317 "Come along with me : part of a novel, sixteen stories, and three lectures"]. ''WorldCat''</ref>

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	=== Contents ===		=== Contents ===
			(Periodical appearances)
	* ''Come Along with Me''		* ''Come Along with Me''
	* '''"Janice"''' (''Threshold'', 1938): The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ		* '''"Janice"''' (''Threshold'', 1938): The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
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	* "I Know Who I Love":???		* "I Know Who I Love":???
	* "The Beautiful Stranger"		* "The Beautiful Stranger"
	* "The Summer People"		* '''"The Summer People"''' (''Charm'', September 1950):
	* "Island"		* "Island"
	* [[The Lovely House\|"A Visit"]]		* [[The Lovely House\|"A Visit"]]

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	* '''"Janice"''' (''Threshold'', 1938): The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ		* '''"Janice"''' (''Threshold'', 1938): The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
	* "Tootie in Peonage"		* "Tootie in Peonage"
	* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend		* '''"A Cauliflower in Her Hair"''' (''Mademoiselle'', December 1944): Dad hits on daugher's friend
	* "I Know Who I Love":???		* "I Know Who I Love":???
	* "The Beautiful Stranger"		* "The Beautiful Stranger"

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	=== Contents ===		=== Contents ===
	* ''Come Along with Me''		* ''Come Along with Me''
	* '''"Janice"''': The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ		* '''"Janice"''' (''Threshold'', 1938): The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
	* "Tootie in Peonage"		* "Tootie in Peonage"
	* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend		* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend

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	=== Contents ===		=== Contents ===
	* ''Come Along with Me''		* ''Come Along with Me''
	* "Janice": The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ		* '''"Janice"''': The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
	* "Tootie in Peonage"		* "Tootie in Peonage"
	* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend		* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend

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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	The incomplete titular novel, ''Come Along with Me'', centres on the inner life of a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman.<ref>[http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html ''DarkEcho/HorrorOnline'': Shirley Jackson & The Haunting of Hill House<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314130906/http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html \|date=2018-03-14 }}. July 1999 By Paula Guran</ref> 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~~ (spirituality)\|medium]] in her new [[boarding house]]. It is written in a more light-hearted style than many of Jackson's other works.		The incomplete titular novel, ''Come Along with Me'', centres on the inner life of a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman.<ref>[http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html ''DarkEcho/HorrorOnline'': Shirley Jackson & The Haunting of Hill House<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314130906/http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html \|date=2018-03-14 }}. July 1999 By Paula Guran</ref> 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 (spirituality)\|medium]] in her new [[boarding house]]. It is written in a more light-hearted style than many of Jackson's other works.

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	* ''Come Along with Me''		* ''Come Along with Me''
	* "Janice": ~~A young woman~~, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. ~~(?)~~ Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ		* "Janice": The title character, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends Bobby and Sally how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
	* "Tootie in Peonage"		* "Tootie in Peonage"
	* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend		* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend
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	*{{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909234846/http://reagan.classicauthors.net/sjackson/ \|date=September 9, 2015 \|title=Shirley Jackson - Life and Work by Bette Reagan }}		*{{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909234846/http://reagan.classicauthors.net/sjackson/ \|date=September 9, 2015 \|title=Shirley Jackson - Life and Work by Bette Reagan }}
	*[http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html Shirley Jackson]. ''Tabula Rasa''		*[http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html Shirley Jackson]. ''Tabula Rasa''
	*[[~~iarchive~~:come-along-with-me-short-story-film-1981\|''Come Along With Me'' full ''American Playhouse'' episode on the Internet Archive]]		*[[Iarchive:come-along-with-me-short-story-film-1981\|''Come Along With Me'' full ''American Playhouse'' episode on the Internet Archive]]

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{{Short description|Collection of works by Shirley Jackson}}
{{Infobox book
|name=Come Along with Me
|author=[[Shirley Jackson]]
|language=English
|country=United States
|image=File:Come Along with Me.jpg
|caption=First edition
|genre=[[Gothic fiction]]
|published=1968 ([[Viking Press]])}}
'''''Come Along with Me''''' is a [[wikt:posthumous|posthumous]] collection of works by [[United States|American]] writer [[Shirley Jackson]]. It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen [[short stories]], mostly in the [[Gothic fiction|gothic]] genre, including Jackson's best known work, "[[The Lottery]]".<ref name="Crow2013">{{cite book|author=Charles L. Crow|title=A Companion to American Gothic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYrHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT343|date=10 September 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-60842-5|pages=343–}}</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/01/shirley_jackson_come_along_with_me_shows_why_you_need_to_read_more_than.html "Why You Should Read Shirley Jackson"]. ''Slate'', By William Brennan</ref><ref name="Dresner">{{cite book|author=Zita Dresner|title=Redressing the balance|year=1988|url=https://archive.org/details/redressingbalanc00walk|url-access=registration|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-61703-468-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/redressingbalanc00walk/page/316 316]–}}</ref><ref name="Levy2013">{{cite book|author=Barbara Levy|title=Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kT7bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT69|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-38593-5|pages=53–54, 69–}}</ref><ref name="Bleiler2003">{{cite book|author=Richard Bleiler|title=Supernatural Fiction Writers: Peter Ackroyd to Graham Joyce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RjuAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-31251-4|page=484}}</ref>

The collection was published by Jackson's husband, [[Stanley Edgar Hyman]], in 1968, three years after Jackson's death,<ref>Rafferty, Terence. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Rafferty-t.html?_r=0 "Her Darkest Places"]. ''New York Times Book Review'', 26 August 2010.</ref><ref name="JoshiToro2013">{{cite book|author1=S. T. Joshi|author2=Guillermo Del Toro|title=American Supernatural Tales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ5rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213|date=1 October 2013|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-66275-5|pages=213–}}</ref> and includes a preface by him. It was listed by ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' among the best fiction of 1968.<ref name="Hattenhauer2003">{{cite book|author=Darryl Hattenhauer|title=Shirley Jackson's American Gothic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jutboZnFCCsC&pg=PA195|date=1 January 2003|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-5608-8|page=195}}</ref> In 2013, ''Come Along with Me'' was reprinted by [[Penguin Classics]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel |last=Jackson |first=Shirley |author-link=Shirley Jackson |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-14-310711-8 |location=New York |others=Foreword by [[Laura Miller (writer)|Laura Miller]] |editor-last=Hyman |editor-first=Stanley Edgar |editor-link=Stanley Edgar Hyman}}</ref>

As of 2015, ''Come Along with Me'' was featured in the collections of more than 1,000 libraries.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/285317 "Come along with me : part of a novel, sixteen stories, and three lectures"]. ''WorldCat''</ref>

== Summary ==
The incomplete titular novel, ''Come Along with Me'', centres on the inner life of a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman.<ref>[http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html ''DarkEcho/HorrorOnline'': Shirley Jackson & The Haunting of Hill House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314130906/http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html |date=2018-03-14 }}. July 1999 By Paula Guran</ref> 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 (spirituality)|medium]] in her new [[boarding house]]. It is written in a more light-hearted style than many of Jackson's other works.

=== Contents ===
* ''Come Along with Me''
* "Janice": A young woman, no longer able to afford school, briefly and casually recounts to her friends how she almost committed suicide earlier that day. (?) Supposedly the story read by Hyman wanted to meet SJ
* "Tootie in Peonage"
* "A Cauliflower in Her Hair": Dad hits on daugher's friend
* "I Know Who I Love":???
* "The Beautiful Stranger"
* "The Summer People"
* "Island"
* [[The Lovely House|"A Visit"]]
* "The Rock"
* "A Day in the Jungle"
* "Pajama Party"
* "Louisa, Please (Come Home)"
* "The Little House"
* "The Bus"
* Experience and Fiction
* "The Night We All had Grippe"
* Biography of a Story
* "[[The Lottery]]"
* Notes for a Young Writer

== Adaptations ==
[[Joanne Woodward]] directed an adaptation of the novel ''Come Along with Me'' as an episode of the [[PBS]] [[anthology series]] ''[[American Playhouse]]'' in 1982, with a cast led by [[Estelle Parsons]] and [[Sylvia Sidney]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=Come Along with Me|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082191/|access-date=2018-11-13}}</ref> The episode originally aired on February 16, 1982.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909234846/http://reagan.classicauthors.net/sjackson/ |date=September 9, 2015 |title=Shirley Jackson - Life and Work by Bette Reagan }}
*[http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html Shirley Jackson]. ''Tabula Rasa''
*[[iarchive:come-along-with-me-short-story-film-1981|''Come Along With Me'' full ''American Playhouse'' episode on the Internet Archive]]

{{Shirley Jackson}}

[[Category:1968 books]]
[[Category:Books adapted into films]]
[[Category:Books published posthumously]]
[[Category:Works by Shirley Jackson]]
[[Category:Viking Press books]]