![]() ![]() ![]() "Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors"Īnthony Boucher and J.The second, third, and fourth sections are prefaced by quotations from Saducismus Triumphatus, a 17th century book about witchcraft, by Joseph Glanvill. The book bears the dedication "For my mother and father". Characters named James Harris appear in the stories "The Daemon Lover," "Like Mother Used to Make," "Elizabeth" and "Of Course." Other characters with the surname Harris appear or are referenced in "The Villager," "The Renegade," "Flower Garden," "A Fine Old Firm" and "Seven Types of Ambiguity." The collection also contains a short excerpt from the traditional ballad " The Daemon Lover," in which the title character's name is James Harris. Jackson's original title for this collection was The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris. ![]() Her later posthumous collections were Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968), edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman, and Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995) and Let Me Tell You (Random House, 2015), edited by her children Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime. Published by Farrar, Straus, it includes " The Lottery" and 24 other stories. The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. ![]()
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