The Lottery and Other Stories

Перед вами сборник рассказов Ширли Джексон, в который входит «Лотерея» – одна из самых страшных и культовых историй двадцатого века, оказавшая влияние на таких писателей, как Нил Гейман и Стивен Кинг. Замечательного хозяина выгнали из дома собственные гости; женщина проводит день своей свадьбы в лихорадочных поисках своего будущего мужа; а небольшая деревня собирается вместе для ужасного ежегодного ритуала. Ширли Джексон – мастер короткого рассказа с леденящей душу тревогой повествует о кровавом ликовании загубленных жизней. Книга Ширли Джексон «Лотерея и другие истории» заинтересует не только поклонников творчества писательницы, но и тех, кому по душе жанр хоррора. Книга на английском языке. 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 for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. 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. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece.