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The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus, it includes "The Lottery" and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
The short stories include “The Lottery”, “Flower Garden”, “Come Dance with Me in Ireland”, “Men with Their Big Shoes”, “Trial by Combat”, “Pillar of Salt”, “Like Mother Used to Make”, and Colloquy”. “The Lottery” was disturbing, as expected. “Flower Garden” was my favorite.
Mar 9, 2005 · A collection of twenty-five short stories by Shirley Jackson, including the classic "The Lottery", which caused a sensation when it was first published in 1948. The stories range from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous, and demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range and power as a storyteller.
The Lottery and Other Stories. Shirley Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mar 16, 2005 - Fiction - 320 pages. One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s...
Jun 6, 2023 · One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. This lucid tale of a sleepy town’s annual lottery—and the monstrous desires it awakens—endures as an essential classic of American fiction.
Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New...
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.
