Question: Which story in 'Come Along With Me', a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson, has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature"?

Context articles: Oscar Perdomo Gamboa
Nine Stories (Salinger)
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
The Lottery
Crown of Stars
Stanley Edgar Hyman
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Boule de Suif
Come Along With Me

Oscar Perdomo Gamboa is a writer born in the city of Ibagué, Colombia.
 Studied Journalism and a magister in Colombian and Latin American literature.
 Won the Jorge Isaacs award with the novel Hacia la Auora  in 1998, a story about a student who can control other people's dreams.
 The book was published in 1999 and 2005.
 He's worked as teacher in several colleges of the city of Cali.
 In 2008, he published "Ella, mi Sueño y el Mar" (She, my dream and the sea), collection of romantic short stories dedicated to an imaginary muse.
 His third book is "De cómo perdió sus vidas el gato" (How did the cat lose his lives) is a novel for children about a cat who must visit the nine muses in order to reach wisdom.
 In 2011 with the poet Hernando Urriago Benítez published "Escrito en la grama" (written in the grass) an anthology of Colombian short stories about soccer.
 His controversial novel, "MD™", is a parody about a surreal factory where everything is created.
 In 2014 he wrote "Fútbol de carnaval" (Carnival soccer), a book of short stories about Brazilian soccer players.
 In 2015 he published "Allá en la Guajira Arriba" a historic novel about the colombian independence hero José Prudencio Padilla.
 He also has written diverse articles, some of them humorous, for local newspapers, magazines and web pages, including "La Palabra", cultural publication of Universidad del Valle.
 Currently he teaches languages and literature in Cali, Colombia, with fellow writers like Carlos Patiño Millán and Fabio Martínez.
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953.
 It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor".
 ("Nine Stories" is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as "For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories".)
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce, also published under the title "In the Midst of Life".
 With a stated publication date of 1891 (but actually published in early 1892), the stories describe unusual incidents in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.
 "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900, stating "These short stories are among the finest, and best known, in American literature. . . .
 Written in a clear simple style, with each phrase contributing to the total effect, Bierce's tales pointed the way for the American short-story writer."
 Bierce's famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this collection.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written just months before its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of "The New Yorker".
 The story describes a fictional small town which observes — as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America — an annual ritual known as "the lottery".
 It has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".
Crown of Stars is a posthumous collection of Alice Sheldon (aka James Tiptree, Jr.)‘s unpublished short stories and those published in the final years of her career.
 All but one of the stories ("Come Live With Me") had previously been published elsewhere, in Science fiction magazines or anthologies.
 It is copyrighted to “the Estate of Alice B. Sheldon” and was first published in 1988 by Tom Doherty Associates.
 "Crown of Stars" is 340 pages in length.
 Here we have ten short stories that generally represent Sheldon’s last contributions to literature, said to include her final burst of creativity.
Stanley Edgar Hyman (1919–1970) was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts.
 Although more likely to be remembered today as the husband of writer Shirley Jackson (he edited a posthumous collection of her work), Hyman was influential in the development of literary theory during the 1940s and 1950s.
 Equally skeptical of every major critical methodology of his time, he worked out an early instance of a critical theory, exploring ways that critics can be foiled by their own methods.
 "Each critic," Hyman wrote in "The Armed Vision", "tends to have a master metaphor or series of metaphors in terms of which he sees the critical function ... this metaphor then shapes, informs, and sometimes limits his work."
 Hyman saw it as his own critical task to point out these overriding themes by which, tacitly, other critics organized their work and their thinking.
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson.
 Published by Farrar, Straus, it includes "The Lottery" and 24 other stories.
 This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
 Her later posthumous collections were "Come Along with Me" (Viking, 1968), edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman, and "Just an Ordinary Day" (Bantam, 1995) and "Let Me Tell You" (Random House, 2015), edited by her children Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015.
 This is King's sixth collection of short stories and his tenth collection overall.
 One of the stories, "Obits", won the 2016 Edgar Award for best short story, and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best collection.
 The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "Cookie Jar", which was published in 2016 in "VQR".
"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", or "Ball of Lard") is a famous short story by the late 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant first published on 15/16 April 1880.
 It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, titled Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre ("Dumpling and Other Stories of the War").
Come Along With Me is a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson.
 It contains sixteen short stories, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery", three essays delivered by Jackson, and the incomplete novel of the same name on which Jackson was working at the time of her death.