"The Lottery", one of the most terrifying stories written in the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was published in 1948. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories.
Nowadays, “short story” becomes longer and longer. Sometime you get a short story of more than 50 pages and you would lose interest half way and have the desperate feeling that you could never finish it. I want short story that is genuinely short-averag...
评分 评分The dark side of human beings (superstitious brutal and inhumanity of one’s lives). Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. Old man Warner said stoutly about some places have a...
评分Only the lottery
评分印象最深刻的还是The Renegade
评分杀人的工具又象征着人类石器文明,多irony
评分Only the lottery
评分作者很擅长写孤独、精神有问题的人,特别是中年女性。故事开头通常是很正常的日常细节,然后慢慢角色开始不正常,故事中后段角色代入别的角色,形成身份错位和迷失。其恐怖感是隐秘的,仿佛我们努力维持正常,以为自己很正常,但其实已经疯了。
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