One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. This lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery-and the monstrous desires it awakens-endures as an essential classic of American fiction.

The Lottery and Other Stories unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four wonderfully strange and equally terrifying short stories.