The Lottery

story by Shirley Jackson, published June 26, 1948

Publication History

  • Published in New Yorker magazine
  • Collected in The Lottery and Other Stories (1949) by Shirley Jackson
  • Collected in Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979) edited by Leonard Wolf
  • Collected in The Lottery: Adventures of the Daemon Lover (1988) by Shirley Jackson
  • Collected in The Lottery and Other Stories/The Haunting of Hill House/We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1991) by Shirley Jackson
  • Collected in Horrorscape (1993) edited by Gary Goshgarian
  • Collected in Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1994) edited by Leonard Wolf
  • Collected in The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998) edited by Robert Silverberg
  • Published in The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2001) edited by Garyn G. Roberts
  • Published in The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time (2002) edited by Leslie Pockell
  • Collected in The American Fantasy Tradition (2002) edited by Brian Thomsen, Martin H. Greenberg

Adaptation History

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  1. Lottery, The (1969)
  2. Lottery, The (1996) made for TV