After being shipped to a different store branch today, in a patch of downtime I notice, after having a nose around the tills, that Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, a short story originally published in the New Yorker in 1948, has been published in a Penguin Classics pamphlet style (following in the footsteps of Albert Camus' "The Sea Close By" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings") for only 99p.

I love Shirley Jackson. I would probably class We Have Always Lived in the Castle as one of my favourite books. I love her horrific subversion of golden curled, root beer drinking cornfed America. The Lottery is perhaps her most famous short story and if you don't want to splash out on or commit to the Penguin Classic "The Lottery and Other Stories" (although, you really should), then this pocket sized gem is a perfect introduction to the dark mind of Jackson.