Favorite short story author
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Favorite short story author
What are your favorite short stories?
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But you're right about reading the right ones, I didn't 'get' short stories for a long time and saw them as a poor relation of the novel, but I now appreciate the skill that goes into writing one.
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I'd have to agree with Sasha For. Doyle is the only writer whose entire canon of short stories I have read several times.Sasha For wrote:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories have to be my all time favorites.
Another of my favorites is Saki (H.H.Munro)
Here's a very short sample if you'd like to try him out for yourself.
eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/O ... eWin.shtml
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I recently completed such a fascinating collection of short stories called 'Kissing the Witch' by Emma Donoghue - familiar fairy tales linked together and rewritten from a queer feminist position. I read the whole thing in a sitting and it left me with shivers down my spine.
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This is exactly who I was thinking of. Loved his children's stories growing up. He definitely has some great (and dark) adult shorts.Jo90 wrote:?.. I have got a book of Roald Dahl short stories that I go back to again and again.
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Poe. Hop Frog, The Cask of Amontillado, The Mask of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum...enough said. Did anyone NOT have to read those in school? And creepy is not the word for them. They stick with you.
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