The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris by Jackson, Shirley - 1949

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 9x6x1. First edition, with publisher's initials on copyright page. Includes new facsimile jacket. A bit smoky, boards toned, page edges faintly foxed. 1949 Hard Cover. 306 pp. 8vo. A collection of twenty-five short stories named for the sensational short story first printed in The New Yorker in 1948, and considered by many to be the greatest, scariest short story of the twentieth century. It inspired a 1951 radio play, a television adaptation on Albert McCleery's Cameo Theatre, a 1969 short film (notable as the first screen appearance of Ed Begley, Jr.), and a 1996 feature length TV film. Jackson would go on to write her famous novel The Haunting of Hill House, which is often called the greatest ghost story ever written. Her work is cited as an influence by such authors as Stephen King, Richard Matheson, and Neil Gaiman. Includes: The Intoxicated; The Daemon Lover; Like Mother Used to Make; Trial by Combat; The Villager; My Life with R.H. Macy; The Witch; The Renegade; After You, My Dear Alphonse; Charles; Afternoon in Linen; Flower Garden; Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors; Colloquy; Elizabeth; A Fine Old Firm; The Dummy; Seven Types of Ambiguity; Come Dance with Me in Ireland; Of Course; Pillar of Salt; Men with Their Big Shoes; The Tooth; Got a Letter from Jimmy; The Lottery; Epilogue.