![]() Related: Psychological Horror Books Like The Invisible Man Thankfully, she didn’t, or we would never have been blessed with terrifying horror books like The Haunting of Hill House, which eventually became the Netflix adaptation of the same name. Not all were hate mail, but, if the letters “could be considered to give any accurate cross section of the reading public … I would stop writing now,” Jackson later said. ![]() By the time people had cooled down, The New Yorker had received more than 300 letters in response-more than any other work of fiction the magazine has ever published, according to Ruth Franklin, who wrote an essay about “The Lottery” letters.įranklin, who also penned the first-ever authorized biography of Shirley Jackson, explained that Jackson kept all the letters she received in response to her disturbing story. Soon after the modern horror story was first published, letters (and even phone calls) of outrage started pouring in from readers. ![]() ![]() And you wouldn’t have been alone in your reaction-few short stories (even these must-read short stories) have ever stirred up the kind of outrage that “The Lottery” did upon being printed in the Jissue of The New Yorker. ![]() If you've ever read “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson’s shocking short story, you may have been somewhat befuddled, and perhaps even annoyed. ![]()
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