The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson

This book is a collection of stories by the American female author, Shirley Jackson. The tales are quite eerie and strange in some way, with some having dark humor and the others outwardly nightmarish. The stories gradually progress from the less to the more frightening, and the book finishes with the last and best story of all, The Lottery. The tales would always give on a sense of verisimilitude, making them all the more chilling. What happens when a lady could not find her elusive fiancé on their wedding day? What made a boy talk incessantly of the wicked deeds of a fellow classmate? Or what grisly rites did an otherwise normal village go through every year? Read the book to find the answers to these intriguing questions.

Hanlu (Janice) Chen

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