Word: pyromaniac
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson. An exquisitely subtle look at a household containing a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac, by an authoress who specializes in making light of the macabre...
...curiosity-backward in time to whatever dreadful event has brought the Black-woods to their present predicament, forward to some nameless but newly foreshadowed disaster in the future-the book manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the real world outside...