Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings / Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt ; foreword by Ruth Franklin.

Biographical note -- Foreword: "I think I know her " / by Ruth Franklin -- Sudden and unusual things have happened: unpublished and uncollected short fiction. Paranoia -- Still life with teapot and students -- The Arabian nights -- Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons -- It isn't the money I mind -- Company for dinner -- I cannot sing the old songs -- The new maid -- French is the mark of a lady -- Gaudeamus igitur -- The lie -- She says the damnedest things -- Remembrance of things past -- Let me tell you -- Bulletin -- Family treasures -- Showdown -- The trouble with my husband -- Six A.M. is the hour -- Root of evil -- The bridge game -- The man in the woods -- I would rather write than do anything else: essays and reviews. Autobiographical musing -- A garland of garlands -- Hex me, Daddy, eight to the bar -- Clowns -- A vroom for Dr. Seuss -- Notes on an unfashionable novelist -- Private showing -- Good old house -- The play's the thing -- The ghosts of Loiret -- "Well?" -- When this war is over: early short stories. The sorcerer's apprentice -- Period piece -- 4-F party -- The Paradise -- Homecoming -- Daughter, come home -- As high as the sky -- Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday -- Somehow things haven't turned out quite the way we expected: humor and family. Here I am, washing dishes again -- In praise of dinner table silence -- Questions I wish I'd never asked -- Mother, honestly! -- How to enjoy a family quarrel -- The pleasures and perils of dining out with children -- Out of the mouths of babes -- The real me -- On girls of thirteen -- What I want to know is, what do other people cook with? -- I'd like to see you get out of that sentence: lectures about the craft of writing. About the end of the world -- Memory and delusion -- On fans and fan mail -- How I write -- Garlic in fiction -- Afterword.

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