The Lottery, Adventures of the Demon Lover
Back Cover Text:A study in nightmare - by the most haunting writer of this generation
Meet:
The charming, elusive gentleman with the ordinary name of James Harris and with the extraordinary effect on the lives of those whose paths cross his...
The housewife who finds that just beyond her ruffle-curtained windows lies a landscape of hatred and antagonism...
The pleasant young men who keep their pleasant apartments most pleasantly arranged, only to have the rug pulled out from under them...
The happy villagers whose pastorale ends in an act of unforgettable horror...
The dreamers of strange, unrealized dreams...
Shirley Jackson has turned over the rock of civilized society, and what she finds hiding and encrusted underneath is neither pretty nor pleasant - but you dare not look away! These stories will haunt you forever.