The Lottery And Other Stories Av Shirley Jackson

<p><b>''Shirley Jackson''s stories are among the most terrifying ever written'' Donna Tartt<br></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br> 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 <i>The Lottery </i>was first published

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