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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson · 1948short story
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"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not revealed until the end what actually happens to the person selected by the random lottery: the selected member of the community is stoned to death by the other townspeople.
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Placement
- contained in Best Horror Stories 3anthology
- contained in Come Along with Me: Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lecturescollection
- contained in Flex Text: An Anthology of Literatureanthology
- contained in Shirley Jackson: Novels and Storiesomnibus
- contained in The American Fantasy Traditionanthology
- contained in The Daemon Lover and The Lotterycollection
- contained in The Fantasy Hall of Fameanthology
- contained in The Lottery and Other Storiescollection
- contained in The Lottery and Other Stories / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castleomnibus
- contained in The Lottery, or, The Adventures of James Harriscollection
- contained in The Oxford Book of American Short Storiesanthology
- contained in The Shirley Jackson Collectionomnibus
- contained in The Toothcollection