The Lottery and Other Stories
THE LOTTERY, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," "horrible," "superbly contrived," "cancel my subscription," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range—from the hilarious to the truly horrible - and power as a storyteller.
The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood - JAMES HILTON, New York Herald Tribune
In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents...She was unique. - Newsweek
SHIRLEY JACKSON, born in 1919, was the author of numerous books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. For the last twenty years of her life, until her death in 1965, she lived in North Bennington, Vermont.