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The Lottery and Other Stories
By Shirley Jackson and Patrick McGrath (introduced by)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Modern Library
Publication date July 1, 2000
Pages 292
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780679640394
ISBN-10 0679640398
Dimensions 1 by 5 by 7.25 in.
Weight 0.70 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $19.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Twenty-five horror stories feature a town's annual ritual of evil, a woman's search for her fiancee who has disappeared without a trace, a kleptomaniac neighbor, and a tourist living a nightmare in New York City.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath.
         Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected.
         The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer.

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Hardcover
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With Patrick McGrath (other contributor) | from Modern Library (July 1, 2000); titled "The Lottery and Other Stories"
9780679640394 | details & prices | 292 pages | 5.00 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Twenty-five horror stories feature a town's annual ritual of evil, a woman's search for her fiancee who has disappeared without a trace, a kleptomaniac neighbor, and a tourist living a nightmare in New York City.
from Amereon Ltd (December 1, 1976)
9780848803698 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $31.95
About: The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780374516819 Book cover for 9780374523176 Book cover for 9780374529536
 
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (March 2, 2005); titled "The Lottery: And Other Stories"
9780374529536 | details & prices | 302 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Collects short stories by Shirley Jackson, including 'Like Mother Used to Make,' 'Afternoon in Linen,' 'A Fine Old Firm,' as well as 'The Lottery.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (June 1, 1992)
9780374523176 | details & prices | 289 pages | List price $9.95
About: The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker.
Reissue edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (June 1, 1992); titled "The Lottery and Other Stories"
9780374516819 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A collection of twenty-five tales exploring a world of horror and the macabre features the author's haunting story of a small town's yearly ritual of evil
Cassette/Spoken Word
from Caedmon Audio Cassette (August 1, 1988)
9780898457810 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $9.95
About: "The Lottery" is one of the most anthologized short stories.
Reinforced
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With Shirley Jackson | from Demco Media (June 1, 1992); titled "The Lottery and Other Stories"
9780606043854 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $23.46
About: A collection of twenty-five tales exploring a world of horror and the macabre features the author's haunting story of a small town's yearly ritual of evil

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