As an avid reader, i've read the ultimate classic novels. I've now set my sights on short stories. I've read some "classics" like The Yellow Wallpaper, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Lottery, and A Rose for Emily- but I'm looking for more.. Any short stories or authors that I should pay attention to? I really like southern gothic if that helps any! Thanks so much in advance.
P.S. My english professor was obsessed with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner so exclude those authors please!
2007-08-22 07:39:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
hehe. Sorry Ralph I can't stand Hemingway and his deconstruction way of writing.. o and yes I remember that story - the word "lion" comes to mind lol.
2007-08-22 10:14:45 · update #1
Crud - no Hemingway? I Just read The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Thought it was very good - let me know if you remeber it.
Hmmmm let me think. Oh yes! - Here are some others:
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stepehn King
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
"Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" by Robert Bloch
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
"The Swimmer" by John Cheever
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
"The Fortune-Teller" by Machado de Assis
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
"The Oblong Room" Edward D. Hoch
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
"The Dead" by James Joyce
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
"The Winterberry" by Nick DiChario
"The Raft" by Steven King
"In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft
"The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"The Doctor's Son" by John O'Hara
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Vampyre" by John Polidori
"The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" by Alan Sillitoe
"The Spinoza of Market Street" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy
"A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum.
"The Red Room" by H.G. Wells
"A&P" by John Updike
"Harrison Bergeron" (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Mark on the Wall" (1921) by Virginia Woolf
2007-08-22 07:44:27 · answer #1 · answered by Ralph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ray Bradbury
(collections of short stories)
-The Toyanbee Convector
- Golden Apples of The Sun
- I Sing The Body Electric
- The Illustrated Man
Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle (I suggest reading it first)
- Breakfast of Champions
Douglas Adams
- HitchHiker's Series (though several books, each individual one is a quick read)
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul
- The Salmon of Doubt
The short stories by Poe are incrediably good as well...suggestions on those would be
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Premature Burial
- Descent into the Maelstrom
- The Oblong Box
the list goes on :)
2007-08-22 07:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try these
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
The Winterberry by Nick DiChario
The Kiss by (?)Pushkin(one of those Russian 19th Cen authors)maybe Chekov
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by M. Twain
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Raft by Steven King
The Menace From Earth by Robert Heinlein(also his story The Man Who Sold The Moon)
Anything by a guy named Alan Steele is good
same thing for Richard Matheson
hey, yeah, I forgot Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut-great tale
Usher II by Ray Bradbury is pretty Gothic(its part of the Martian Chronicles)
2007-08-22 07:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by Vandat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joyce Carol Oates (particularly "Heat" and "Where Are Your Going, Where Have You Been?")
Raymond Carver ("Cathedral")
Ray Bradbury (anything really, he's my favorite author!)
These three are generally considered some of the greatest American short story writers. I think Oates would really be up your alley.
I also recommend Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allen Poe, Saki (HH Munro) and MR James. Robert Louis Stevenson also has some excellent shorts, particularly the 4 stories in 'The Suicide Club".
2007-08-22 11:32:00 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Macbeth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe
2007-08-22 07:58:48 · answer #5 · answered by Ya Ya 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Sund of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is one of my favorites
2007-08-22 07:43:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the importance of being earnest- this one is really amusing
a doll house
the awakening
good country people-this one has a funny twist as well
iome are actually plays but can be read like a short story
2007-08-22 07:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by BB 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
WHY DONT YOU TRY READING SOME POETRY BOOKS
2007-08-22 07:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by kendra 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋