Jackson was one of the few true geniuses of supernatural horror fiction. She never wasted her words, she never resorted to contrived or cliched characters and situations, and she never allowed for readers to ever forget what she wrote when they finished. "The Lottery" is still something that sticks in my mind many years after I read it for the first time.
They showed the short film The Lottery in my elementary school multiple times, which, in hindsight, is pretty wild. My eight-year-old self was deeply disturbed by it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaJ_sX1rIA
Jackson was one of the few true geniuses of supernatural horror fiction. She never wasted her words, she never resorted to contrived or cliched characters and situations, and she never allowed for readers to ever forget what she wrote when they finished. "The Lottery" is still something that sticks in my mind many years after I read it for the first time.
So true. Her stories have a real habit of staying with you.
They showed the short film The Lottery in my elementary school multiple times, which, in hindsight, is pretty wild. My eight-year-old self was deeply disturbed by it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaJ_sX1rIA
That is pretty wild!