Twenty-five stories, from the quietly sinister to the openly strange, collected around the title story's small-town ritual of annual, communal violence.
Books mentioned in The Lottery and Other Stories (2)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “"I figure I'd like two good sets, big, like Dickens," he said, "and then a couple of smaller sets." "And a copy of Jane Eyre," his wife said, in her soft voice. — a customer buying books in "The Tooth"/bookstore-set story.”
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: “She went into Whelan's and sat at the counter, putting her copy of the Villager down on the counter next to her pocketbook and The Charterhouse of Parma, which she had read enthusiastically up to page fifty and only carried now for effect.”