The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson | 
Eight Tales of Terror
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Young Goodman Brown
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
A Collapse of Horses
by Brian Evenson | 
Haunted
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
The Collector of Hearts
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Selected Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Windeye
by Brian Evenson | 
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
by J. Sheridan LeFanu | 
Just an Ordinary Day
by Shirley Jackson | 
Fugue State
by Brian Evenson |
Wolverton Station
by Joe Hill | 
Nocturnes
by John Connolly | 
Painted Devils
by Robert Aickman | 
The Four Million
by O. Henry |
Full Throttle
by Joe Hill | 
Let Me Tell You
by Shirley Jackson |
The Bird's Nest
by Shirley Jackson | 
Hangsaman
by Shirley Jackson | 
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
by H. P. Lovecraft |
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What's there to be scared of?