Results for Stories With A Similar Premise To Shirley Jackson's "the Possibility Of Evil"
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In a small suburb in the 1940s, a nosy neighbor's aggressive kindness and anonymous letters have some unintended consequences as they provoke violent responses.
In the mid-twentieth-century South, a black mother's greed has haunting consequences for her and her coveted son.
A woman in her mid-sixties becomes suddenly obsessed with a childhood trauma — and travels back to her hometown to figure out, once and for all, what really happened.
When the young daughter of a famous Hollywood actress mysteriously vanishes from school, the actress desperate to do whatever it takes to find her child, seeks the help of a renowned psychic. But when the psychic suggests that he knows about her deepest, darkest secret, the actress must act quickly in order to preserve her reputation and find her daughter, before it's too late.
When a young Black woman shows up at her crazy dead aunt's apartment in New York City with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, she finds none of the money she'd been hoping to inherit. Instead, in a hidden treasure chest, they discover a dead body, a shotgun, and a machete, sealed with a tempting offer from the Devil. The couple takes the deal and, hungry for blood, sets off to wreak havoc on the blue suits that have violently policed their communities for so long.
After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.
After a chance encounter with a mysterious teenage girl, a lonely woman gets pulled into the girl's sinister family drama.
As she wanders in and out of forests to escape her past and the boy she feels guilty for wanting, a woman gives birth to and abandons a child she thinks of as the physical embodiment of her sin.
An attorney general is thrust into a campaign for governor when an opposing candidate becomes popularized by a religious cult whose previous leader was recently murdered. The attorney general's task of winning over the masses becomes all the more difficult when his son-in-law confesses to the cult leader's murder.
A traumatized veteran with destructive magical powers struggles to escape the weight of her past crimes—but finds herself pulled in once more.
