Thoughts about Shirley Jackson
After reading Afternoon in Linen and The Lottery, I knew that why Shirley Jackson was a horror writer. The first story looked not like a horror story to me. Maybe the child's lie may be like a horror theme because their family believed her but it is kind of a betray. In the second story, the genre of horror really appered. The ways of describing popular looking villagers but how they change when they throw stones, it was a horror story. Also the talks around villagers are just popular but we know the end when we read, that it felt scary when reading along the story.