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*1001 $aJackson, Shirley,$d1916-1965
*24514$aThe lottery and other stories /$cShirley Jackson.
*264 1$aLondon :$bPenguin,$c2009
*300  $a302 p.$c20 cm.
*500  $aFormerly CIP Uk.
*650 7$aHorror tales, American.
*655 7$aSkräck
*655 7$aNoveller
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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 lottery.

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.