I read The Lottery in high school and remembered feeling it was hokey. I was annoyed that my class had to discuss it as serious literature. We also read more serious stories like The Fall of the House of Usher and the poem The Raven, which at least qualify as high literature. As for Poe, I have great esteem for The Black Cat, another of his tales which is now being widely read in high schools.
Poe was something else, too. I don’t like dark, scary stories. Part of it might have to do with my Grave’s Disease-I’m tense and anxious most of he time so it doesn’t take much to ratchet it up.
I have also never like stories in which there is no one able to stop the evil or at least bring justice; worse if the PTB are complicit (The Lottery). The Cask of Amontillado freaked me out.