As famous for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, the writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) creates yet another masterpiece when the arrival of the freshly-weds Fred and Rose disrupts her creative output and her marriage to the literary critic-and philander prof-Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg).
As famous for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, the writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) creates yet another masterpiece when the arrival of the freshly-weds Fred and Rose disrupts her creative output and her marriage to the literary critic-and philander prof-Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg).