The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching

tiger to bee

the animals all assume he has come about the vacancy and he is swiftly taken through a rigorous interview process

rarely but piercingly lucid

psychologists and philosophers

'Leda and the Swan'

Martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix - or whether

Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War

Ancient Greece

a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon

withering wit

and judgement-free celebration of every body shape and size

including the Bosnian women who have hunted down more than a hundred war criminals