Just An Ordinary Day is a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer Shirley Jackson, first published in 1996 by Bantam Books.

Inside were the original manuscript for The Haunting of Hill House, six unpublished stories, and many pages of notes.

This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work titled Just An Ordinary Day, which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had appeared in periodicals, but had never been collected in book form.

[2][3][4][5] The introduction to the collection is written by Hyman and DeWitt; there is also a preface by Jackson entitled "All I Can Remember.

a virtuoso collection,"[2] while Kirkus Reviews writes: "There's rather a lot of inchoate work here .