1of7Show MoreShow Less2of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less3of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less4of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less5of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less6of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less7of7Miles Hyman has illustrated Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," turning his grandmother's famous short story into a graphic novel.Illustration by Miles Hyman. Courtesy of FSGShow MoreShow Less
When Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were flabbergasted.
They expressed their flustered outrage by writing letters to the editor; "The Lottery" triggered more mail to the magazine than any other piece of fiction. Readers called Jackson's story "gratuitously disagreeable" and in "incredibly bad taste"; others confessed they were "completely baffled" by what they read and demanded an explanation from the author.