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The Lottery - Controversial short story published in the New Yorker about a fictional American community which observes an annual stoning tradition (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by decadentrebel to c/creepywikipedia

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[–] lyam23 11 points 10 months ago

Written by Shirley Jackson who also wrote We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House. All excellent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did anyone have to read this in high school?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I think we read it in 7th grade.

[–] FollyDolly 4 points 10 months ago

God yes, it was messed up.

[–] perviouslyiner 9 points 10 months ago

"People ... wanted to know was where these lotteries were held, and whether they could go there and watch."

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[–] paddirn 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was also used as inspiration for the music video for Marilyn Manson - Man that you Fear.

[–] decadentrebel 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good trivia here. I remember watching the video as a kid (this was around the time Manson had creepy videos and was a bit of a pariah) and it was something different for him.

[–] paddirn 2 points 10 months ago

There was a shift in his presentation over time. In the beginning, when he first started getting big, he was alot more about being this sort of white trash mirror held up to society, exposing all the flawed parts of American society with a trailer-home aesthetic.

Then with this album, Antichrist Superstar, he started getting a bit more refined and the religious messaging got a bit more prominent than before. Later albums leaned more and more into the glam and the Nazi-esque imagery, but even at this early point he was kind of on the trajectory towards the glamrock-fascism thing that he’s since settled into.