2007-09-20 17:12:55 · 16 answers · asked by LadyRebecca 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
TW K - I love Guy de Maupassant too...he was a master of "terrible" stories
2007-09-20 17:33:20 · update #1
Fizixnut - Doyle and Poe, Asimov and Clarke - awesome
2007-09-20 17:34:58 · update #2
Quality by John Galsworthy. Its about a shoe-maker who starves to death because he would compromise on quality.
Necklace by guy de Maupassant. its about a woman who turns a pauper seeking to repay her friend for nothing (almost). Its a terrible story.
Of course, Sherlock Holmes is extremely good. All stories...
TW K
2007-09-20 17:29:24 · answer #1 · answered by TW K 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've read quiet a few.
Love anything by Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker -
Loved ALL Edgar Allan Poe stories. They rock!
Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle were awesome too! :)
2007-09-20 17:26:39 · answer #2 · answered by Zin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of my favorites are:
Miss Emmeline Takes Off by Walter Brooks
The Wonderful Day by Robert Arthur
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
2007-09-21 03:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bunch by Isaac Asimov (I forgot their titles)
Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick
Hives by Kara Dalkey
science fiction short stories are haunting... Firebirds Rising had a lot of good ones.
2007-09-20 18:22:20 · answer #4 · answered by istillcandream 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is not like a real short story because it has little chapters but is a really good story the one or the House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2007-09-20 17:22:11 · answer #5 · answered by mexicana_510 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like a lot of fairytales.... also I just finished reading a book of short stories by Megan Whalen Turner It was called "Instead of three wishes" but one of the stories in there that I liked was titled "The Factory" it's about a guy who gets a job working as a crane operator at this place called Gerwinks Primary Factory(I think)and it's a ghost story. so he meets this ghost girl and reads poetry and other books to her on his lunch breaks. finally he decides he never wants to leave or get promoted so he poisons himself and lives happily ever after with the ghost girl and her mom, and siblings, etc.
2007-09-20 18:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by Emily V. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to read a good set of short stories I reccoment Different Seasons by Stephen King.
But of course the best is "Quitters Inc." by Stephen King.
2007-09-20 18:55:40 · answer #7 · answered by Sheri2271 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really into short stories..I like the long ones. But I still remember the Long Walk by Stephen King, under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was a sick story!
2007-09-20 17:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I have a lot. Roald Dahl's Switch B*tch, a book of four somewhat linked short stories, is amazing. I also really like H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.
2007-09-20 19:00:14 · answer #9 · answered by Miss Angora 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything out of Kim Edward's "Secrets of a Fire King". There are people thirteen short stories in that book, and they are all amazing.
2007-09-20 17:29:39 · answer #10 · answered by hiltychick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋