The Possibility of Evil and The Lottery Comparison

The theme of these two stories are very similar, it being how people aren't how they appear. In the Possibility of Evil, We think Miss Strangeworth is this innocent old lady and something else is wrong  with the town....Until we see her writing the evil letters. Then, we realize she's the evil in the town. in The Lottery, we think this lottery is for money, until the end. We learn the "winner" of the lottery actually gets stoned to death, and this tradition happens yearly. Maybe the stoning part is why places up North stopped doing after so long...