![]() ![]() Jackson’s aim appears to be to disquiet the reader, with tales of seemingly ordinary people, often mothers and women starting their careers or family lives. ![]() Her stories explore the nature of identity and competition, fear and paranoia with an air of latent suspense, rather than all out horror. This is particularly true of Shirley Jackson’s stories, which take this loneliness and search for identity and combine it with a sense of tension and suspense to create something irresistibly weird. What it does have in common with the other twenty – four stories in this collection is a remarkable way of creating tension and suspense out of both the chilling and the ordinary.įrank O’Connor said that within the short story, ‘there is an intense awareness of human loneliness’. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, but is not necessarily indicative of the other stories contained in this collection. The New Yorker received a record number of complaints about the story ranging from the confused to the outraged. ![]() Often considered one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. What a fantastic collection of stories to kick off my 20 Books of Summer Challenge! ![]()
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