The Lottery
Short story by Shirley JacksonWikipedia
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Sep 28, 2026
Rachel ReevesHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Justin GerberHOST
It's Shirley Jackson's The Lottery-
Rachel ReevesHOST
The lottery
Justin GerberHOST
... until Six Seconds, uh, Dark Can't Breathe.
Ariel BissettHOST
Well, almost anyone could join the Navy.
Ariel BissettHOST
And then if you captured a ship, and then like sold that all of the goods and whatever, you could make like, you could, and it not like, it's not as hard as winning the lottery.
Ariel BissettHOST
You could actually make a fortune doing that.
Ariel BissettHOST
And so people would do that.
48 MINS LATER
Raeleen LemayHOST
so long ago now that I can't even remember when it was um and I remembered liking it but I didn't remember much else about it I'm like yep there's a weird house and that's about all I remember um so I'm reading it again and I'm on page 40 now so I'm still pretty early days but I've been having so much fun reading this I've been underlining stuff I'm annotating this one again it's been a while since I've annotated a book I know I haven't really talked about that recently because I haven't been doing it I haven't been reading books that felt like they warranted it I guess but this book definitely does like from the first the first paragraph is so epic and there's lots of great lines throughout and I'm just like trying to really get into the head of the main character Eleanor so like I've all these like strange thoughts she's having I'm like ah yes I want to remember that for later um when things start getting really crazy um so yeah so far really enjoying it i don't have too much to say yet because i'm still pretty early on but i'm loving it i'm really glad that you have been reading shirley jackson which has encouraged me to want to pick her up again because i do have a couple of books by her that i haven't read as well so um yeah reading and very much enjoying this so thank you for that
Ariel BissettHOST
That's so cool.
Ariel BissettHOST
Yeah, I'm still reading through the lottery.
Ariel BissettHOST
It's definitely going to take us a while to read it because we're reading like two stories a night.
Anne AzanoGUEST
I got into epidemiology.
Anne AzanoGUEST
The lottery was big for me.
Anne AzanoGUEST
I really liked that.
Anne AzanoGUEST
And then, you know, Freddy Krueger.
5 MINS LATER
Steve BeckerHOST
Main protagonist.
Anne AzanoGUEST
Yeah, Lieutenant Dan.
Steve BeckerHOST
What did you like about The Lottery? Well, human sacrifice.
Steve BeckerHOST
I guess
JayHOST
The book where they throw stones at a victim to ensure a good harvest.
JayHOST
It's called The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
KimHOST
Oh, I thought that was because their population was too big.
KimHOST
And so somebody had to be killed.
Mark EllisonHOST
What is the title of that collection? Question 5.
Mark EllisonHOST
Beyond King, a mid-20th century American writer profoundly shaped psychological horror with works like The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House, both often cited as influences on modern horror authors.
Mark EllisonHOST
Who is this author? We'll be right back with these answers after this break.
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Hanging out at the pool is great.
Mark EllisonHOST
Different Seasons contains The Body, basis for Stand By Me, and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
Mark EllisonHOST
It also includes Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question five, who wrote The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House? Answer, Shirley Jackson.
Mark EllisonHOST
Shirley Jackson's blend of domestic unease and supernatural dread set a template for later horror.
Paul SeligGUEST
Because with my creative work or anybody's creative work, you have to craft it.
Paul SeligGUEST
I heard that the writer Shirley Jackson wrote her short story, The Lottery, in one sitting.
Paul SeligGUEST
It didn't require any changes.
Paul SeligGUEST
It just poured out of her and done.
Sindhu SundarHOST
You know I had to pay my annual fall respects to Shirley Jackson.
Sindhu SundarHOST
She's, of course, the queen of literary horror known for The Lottery, a short story The New Yorker published in the 1940s, and also The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel that was also a Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan.
Danielle SmithHOST
And she is also known, according to this podcast, for burying organizing messages into the subtext.
Danielle SmithHOST
If you have no idea what we're talking about, check out our Halloween episode from last year linked in the description.
Andrew RimbyHOST
Well, and I think, though, of a New England writer that I actually was thinking a lot as I was reading Nothing Tastes As Good, which is Shirley Jackson.
Andrew RimbyHOST
And her story, The Lottery, which is set on a sunny day and turns the head on sacrificing someone from the community.
Andrew RimbyHOST
And, like, I do.
Andrew RimbyHOST
I think it's so interesting that you're really playing with such a bright landscape full of, like, aesthetic beauty that just... you know, can quickly turn into something destructive.
Alessandra PinoHOST
yes i love that and i probably won't put this in because it's got nothing to do with what we're talking about in the sense you know for our audience but In terms of my Gothic research, when I look at games and chance and luck, it's I always go back to Shirley.
Alessandra PinoHOST
Shirley Jackson wrote a book called The Lottery, and it's about this random lynching of a family, which happens every so often for, you know, to keep the good luck up of the whole community, that sort of thing.
Alessandra PinoHOST
And it's just
Barry CarterGUEST
this.
Barry CarterGUEST
Shirley Jackson, did you say?
Alessandra PinoHOST
Yeah, the lottery.
Alessandra PinoHOST
It's
Barry CarterGUEST
kind of like the precursor to the Purge movies, I guess.
Raeleen LemayHOST
Okay.
Ariel BissettHOST
The next book that I'm currently reading, hoo, very exciting, The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson.
Raeleen LemayHOST
Yes.
Raeleen LemayHOST
That's so sick.
Raeleen LemayHOST
Right
Ariel BissettHOST
... and the theme.
Ariel BissettHOST
Um, so anyways, I've heard so much about The Lottery.
Ariel BissettHOST
I've never read that short story, though.
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