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Loved the book. Read it in HS.

A precursor of, now that I think about it, Midsommar.

I remember stumbling across this story while I was still in High School in the 60s. I was horrified, but I loved it.

And we all read it in school for how many decades?

I read it in high school and it has been seared into my brain ever since.

Because they were antisemitic and or don’t want people learning about the holocaust? The same way republicans are anti art these days.

One of the first short stories i read in English, as a teenager. The shock the awe , all in one.

I was in the play The Lottery

Just watched. JZ 😱

Wild. My father taught high school English and theater when I was 7 (1964) and when he directed "The Lottery" I was brought in to play one of the village children. I'm forever scarred by throwing those grey paper mache rocks at that woman. I never read it before now.

This was assigned reading in school and it freaked me out. Just read it again and it still does. Good thing a lot of MAGA republicans can’t read or there would be lotteries happening today.

One word explains it all: Texas

Great story.

For those who have never read, recommend it. Jackson penned one afternoon and immediately mailed. Only edit was date of occurrence. Talent envied.

Great story- great message. Geez and here we go again.

I remember having to read this story in Jr. High. It is so nerve racking and psychologically terrifying. The book report easily flowed from my brain to my fingers. Did earn an A.

But so, so, good. Reducing the entire concept of the Outsider to a black spot.

I remember, too, and it truly disturbed me

That was assigned reading in my high school in Canada in the 70s

I read The Lottery when I was a teenager. Very eye opening.

We read that in school

The most brilliant and awful story. So perfect I wanted to reread to study the set-up but couldn't do it🫣. Amazing.

Required reading in 10th grade in 1971. I loved all the required reading except Moby Dick. Even in my second attempt 50 years later. But The Lottery, Red Badge of Courage, A Separate Peace, Siddhartha, Breakfast of Champions were some of the best books that were considered required reading.

These days, we'd call it "The Hunger Games."

Love this story!!

I think it's a masterpiece.

Excellent story! All my students had to read and the discussions were excellent!

Same here! I rented it and watched w my 2 daughters once they were JH age.

I've watched it so many times I almost know the dialogue by heart 😂

The Lottery and A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor were the high school assignments that put me off short stories forever.

What a terrifying story

The juxtaposition between Jackson's lottery and the mega millions $$$ lotteries we have today 🤌

Hold up

This was good too. Still accurate, 7 years later

How I learned of your publication.

Mr Flinn’s Short Stories class in HS. I remember it well.

No, The Most Dangerous Game

Twice the sun rose.

Was it "The Most Dangerous Game"? That one definitely messed with me in high school

My runner-up would be The Veldt

I've searched for the "little brown handbook" from 1978 - 1982 that had these classics. Amazing literature, must read!

I read this for the first time last summer and it us now one of my favorite books! I bought a collection of Shirley Jackson short works and also read Hangsaman, which I recommend!Recommend! She is brilliant.

Sorry … the teacher assigned The Lottery to us. I read her novels later on, probably JHS or high school.

I read it in my very early teens, in a horror anthology curated by the late Tor Åge Bringsværd. I believe it has been one of those formative works of art for me.

I saw the short film version of this in SEVENTH GRADE and it left me stunned and speechless.

I actually wrote a paper about that story in my 3L Law and Literature class at Catholic University. Comparison of law vs. morality.

That’s a very good point. And the imagination is so much worse than any violence she could’ve further described.

We read it 7th grade

This story is incredibly important.

This story went bone deep in me as an early teen. So much so that when I first heard Guy Clark's lovely song about townsfolk gathering to watch a train go by -- and it has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Lottery-like! -- I felt a sense of foreboding. Sometimes I think I still do.

The story has stuck with me for at least 3/4 of my life. I think of it sometimes when the world is upside down, like now.

Read that story in high school...i was creeped out, but I also recognized even back then that enough people are hateful sheep that it could actually happen.

A disturbing classic that is still relevant today. Even if the society you live in finds something acceptable, that doesn't make it right.

Yikes!🤯

Disgustingly prescient & timely; don’t know that we want trump & his MAGAts reading it though.

One of the great stories. She said she wrote the story in one sitting after walking uphill to her house with the groceries. I read her biography and she's a remarkable woman.

Read that in first-year university

Not being from the US, I was unaware of this story. From Wikipedia, it is horrifying that most of the first tranches of letters to the author were to ask "where they could go and watch it" "It", being the stoning.

This was required reading in my 8th grade English class.

That story still makes me shudder . . .

It is quite the story!! It still jangles about in my memory after reading it in high school 35 years ago.

I think this was made into a movie which I remember seeing.

Sadly, I have to have a subscription to listen to or to read this article. I’m not able to pay for a subscription so I can’t read this unless you can gift it.

I read it in grade school and have never forgotten. Too bad many missed the entire point

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this 'fiction', and any other story like it published in various languages, is that we are participating in it. It is both fiction and reality, yet we neatly compartmentalise to deny our involvement. We kill people — because that's what we do.

I'm sure conservatives want to ban it.

Shirley Jackson's short story appeared in my 8th grade literature book. I was not a "reader" until I read this classic. I asked the teacher, did I read this correctly? They killed her? It was such a shocker it inspired me to read other off the wall books....