THE LOTTERY AND OTHER TALES

In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests/ a woman spends her wedding day frantically se arching for her husband-to-be/ and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annu al ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike ...[Read more]