'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever
written' Donna Tartt 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. In these
stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his
own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching
for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a
small farming village comes together for a terrible annual 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 any other. She was born in California in 1916. When
her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker
in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has
since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her
first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same
year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The
Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the
Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her
sleep at the age of 48. 'An amazing writer ... if you haven't read
any of her short stories ... you have missed out on something
marvellous' Neil Gaiman 'Her stories are stunning, timeless - as
relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published ...
'The Lottery' is so much an icon in the history of the American
short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of
American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American
psyche, our collective unconscious' A. M. Homes
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