A review by stateofgrace
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

3.5

My problem with short story collections is that the genius of the best stories feels dragged down by the banal, middle of the road stories. This collection had a strong theme of the psychological horror of normalcy, which helped to tie all of the stories together. My favorite stories were "The Lottery", "The Tooth", and "Colloquy".