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The Lottery and Other Stories

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內容簡介 她不需要吸血鬼、狼人或喪屍，不需要任何妖魔鬼怪，卻總有辦法讓讀者在故事結束時感到一陣毛骨悚然。 雪莉‧傑克森(Shirley Jackson)的童年時期十分孤獨，年齡差距讓她與手足疏離，卻也讓她有足夠的時間培養細膩的觀察力與寫作的興趣。長大後她投入寫作志業，1948年，她於紐約客雜誌投稿並刊登的作品《樂透》刊出後收到讀者強烈的迴響，超過300多封讀者回函塞爆紐約客的信箱，許多人大肆抨擊故事中描述的人性過於黑暗與邪惡，也有另一派人為雪莉精彩簡潔的描述與氣氛掌控讚賞不已。 她的筆觸精簡，語調平淡且冷靜，對於角色的外觀與造型無太多裝飾性的描繪，注重在情節的鋪陳與氣氛的拿捏，時常能用三兩句對白就能讓讀者忽然打了一身寒顫。她的故事場景多發生於日常生活，普通的城市景色或鄉間風光，但總是有那麼一個片刻，一個角色的眼神、態度或對話，能夠讓故事的影像如此栩栩如生，瞬間讓其中隱藏的黑暗、惡意與恐佈全部傾瀉出來。 《樂透》於1949年與其他短篇作品出版為The Lottery and Other Stories，即便出版已將近80年，至今依然受到讀者的喜愛與閱讀，她的作品也不斷被改編或成為許多電影或影集的靈感來源，例如1999年電影《鬼入侵》、NETFLIX影集《鬼入侵》(Haunting of the Hill House)、電影《我們一直住在城堡裡》(We Have Always lived in the Castle)等。 One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect deions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only collection of stories to appear during Shirley Jackson’s lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson’s remarkable range―from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous―and her power as a storyteller.

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作者介紹 Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson (1919～1965) wrote several books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

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最佳賣點 : 恐怖大師史蒂分‧金推崇的恐怖小說女王：Shirley Jackson 雪莉‧傑克森