It's a real spine-freezer of an ending, I agree.

…r, it isn’t right,’ Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.” The curtain closes, and we’re left with nothing but the image of a woman being stoned to death by her neighbours, a mother being bludgeoned by her own children.
The Short Story That Terrified Me Most: ‘The Lottery’
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It's a real spine-freezer of an ending, I agree.
Great article. I'm a big fan of Shirley Jackson. :)
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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