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Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/books_ncats Join our YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCacXUKFJHYXrMgapWaKEGCg/join Learn about Ann Radcliffe: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7qiFPw0W8uLFS3ATWkBKI2s_Q_PRLAsw Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/S7ahQrzbhX Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) was a master of twentieth-century American Gothic literature. Her novels and short stories are still widely read, studied, and adapted. If you’ve read Jackson, you’re probably familiar with her chilling 1948 short story, ‘The Lottery’. But is it the most unsettling story Jackson ever wrote? Might there be an even shorter, even more disturbing tale in her oeuvre? Watch on to find out. Written, presented, and edited by Rosie Whitcombe @books_ncats Directed, produced, and edited by Matty Phillips @ma_ps_ mphotos.uk Bibliography Franklin, Ruth, '"The Lottery" Letters', https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters Franklin, Ruth, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (New York: Liveright Publishing Co., 2016) Heller, Zoë, 'The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson', https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson Jackson, Shirley, 'Biography of a Story', Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories (Library of America, 2010) Jackson, Shirley, 'The Lottery', The Lottery and Other Stories (London: Penguin, 2009) Jackson, Shirely, 'The Witch', The Lottery and Other Stories, (London: Penguin, 2009) ‘Witch-hunts in early modern Europe (circa 1450-1750)’, https://www.gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html