dreamgalaxies 's review for:

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
4.0

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Love that I still have more Shirley Jackson to read. Perfect for the season.

Some of these are brilliant, some of them are repetitive. Some are wickedly funny ("The Witch," "Got a Letter from Jimmy,") and most of them are heartbreaking.

Jackson's claustrophobic domestic horror is relatable and painful, even if the repetition of themes becomes too much in a short story collection. She is a master of dramatic irony.

I am left itching to know more about Jim Harris--and paradoxically dread ever hearing about him again.