The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4614221W/The_Lottery_or_The_Adventures_of_James_Harris

Très suspicieux envers mes voisins maintenant.

These stories were so subtle and odd. I really appreciated the mundane interactions that Jackson manages to make somehow so creepy. Masterfully written, never too blunt and blatant, always thought provoking and unsettling.

Judging as a whole, I much preferred Shirley's Dark Tales collection more. The middle section of this one was a bit of a drag.

Ranked:

The Daemon Lover
The Lottery
The Witch
The Renegade
Like Mother Used to Make
The Tooth
Pillars of Salt
Men with Their Big Shoes
The Villager
My Life with R. H. Macy
Trial by Combat
The Intoxicated
After You My Dear Alphonse
Flower Garden
Seven Kinds of Ambiguity
Charles
Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors
Afternoon in Linen
The Dummy
Of Course
Elizabeth
Colloquy
Got a Letter from Jimmy
A Fine ol Firm
Epilogue