The narrator began that fire in an effort to dislodge her cousin Charles, who has come to convince the narrator's sister (*) Constance to move away from the Blackwood estate.
Tales beginning "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this story" are told to the narrator of this novella by her cat Jonas when she goes to her hiding space near the creek on her property. That narrator dislikes Jim Donell, who taunts her at Stella's coffee shop and later throws the first rock (**) through her window after helping put out a fire she started in her own home. The narrator began that fire in an effort to dislodge her cousin Charles, who has come to convince the narrator's sister (*) Constance to move away from the Blackwood estate. It begins with the narrator's assertion that she likes Richard Plantagenet and the amanoida phallsius, the death's head mushroom. For 10 points, name this novella about Mary Catherine Blackwood, who has poisoned all but two members of her family, a short work by the author of The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson.
Tales beginning "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this story" are told to the narrator of this novella by her cat Jonas when she goes to her hiding space near the creek on her property.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle