![]() ![]() When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. ![]() It seemed to have had its picture taken without her it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified she was only its unwilling vehicle.' 'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. ![]() 'Her stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt ![]() Including her iconic tale The Lottery, The Tooth brings together a short selection of Shirley Jackson's most sinister stories. ![]()
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