# The Tooth

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- Book: [The Tooth](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-jackson/the-tooth) ([The Tooth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-jackson/the-tooth.md))
- Authors: [Shirley Jackson](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-jackson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-004-2
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle...' The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle. This book includes The Tooth , The Witch, Charles , The Lottery and The Intoxicated .