The Lottery  by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

10 pages first pub 1948 (editions) not a book user-added

fiction classics horror short stories

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In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must ...

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