My preferred genre of books is short stories. I love them! What are your favorite short story collections? :)
My preferred genre of books is short stories. I love them!
What are your favorite short story collections? 🙂
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The jilting of Granny Weatherall, Young Goodman Brown, The legend of Sleepy Hollow, so many more!
These are short stories? Not shorter novels or novellas?
@JoAnne yes, these are all classic American literature short stories
I’m on Book two of the Twisted Fairy Tale Series: Ann Hyde in Jekyll Park. Once I start these, I finish them right away! They. Are. Amazing. Book one is called Anna Hill in Silent Wonderland. I couldn’t put it down either! The author is wonderful and is very active on Facebook. Forums, discussions, giveaways… you name it! I’ll leave her link in the comments in case you want to check her out.
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Why I live at the P O. In fact any by Eudora Welty.
(The Mammoth Book of) Best New Horror series
Best American Short Stories series
I just read Dead Ends – Stories From the Gothic South edited by J T Ellison, it had several really good short stories
Alice Munro is the best short story writer ever!
Yes, I’ve read a ton of Alice Munro. ?
The End is Nigh. It’s a great apocalypse collection
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is just my favorite. Check it out if you like curios or steampunk!
Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Four Past Midnight, Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
‘Dangerous Visions’ and ‘Again Dangerous Visions’ both books edited by Harlan Ellison. Also check out the short story collections by Ray Bradbury.
Shawn speakman has done a few
Malgudi days by RK Narayana sort stories
Blyton’s collection
i just started reading white nights by Dostoyevsky….
I have trouble with short stories. I want each story to be a book – and I keep forgetting the stories- I just remember that I either liked the book or I didn’t.
The thing around your neck – Chimamanda Adichie
The Night train at Deoli, Tiger in the Tunnel, The case for Defence, Girls, Sniper, etc
O. Henry, incredible, also Dylan Thomas wrote some brilliant short stories.
I think it is such an admirable art. I haven’t read many, but read a great collection by Sheila O’Flannagan all based on a Caribbean Island, and each story related a a guest or staff member in a hotel. Well worth a read.
Is there a title to the collection?
The Blue Lenses by DuMaurier is fab 🙂
Neil Gaiman’s short stories are top notch. Currently reading his Smoke and Mirrors book of short stories ?
Write India stories. It is an awesome collection
I loved Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
SMALL TOWN GHOSTS AND SMALL TOWN DEMONS by @Shannon
Unaccustomed earth and interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies; excellent!
Short stories by Jeffrey Archer, Daphne Du Maurer and Maeve Binchey.