time; it has the twist in it that makes the adrenalin rush, be it mystery/ terror/ comedy etc., & one can go through their favourite short-story time & again as & when liked; it's easier to save & have ur own collection too. Any likeminded fellas? those who feel the otherway round? I have a collection of 200 stories gingerly selected over the last 6 years of reading....any sharing ..let know? do star if our mind is in tandem!
2007-10-31 19:10:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
a few that come to mind : The Open Window; The Story Teller; The Dusk; The music on the Hill - all by SAKI (H.H.Munro).
Tobin's Palm; The Gentle Grafter; The Ransom of Red Chief; A Retrieved Reformation - all by O'Henry
this is the tip of the iceberg with Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain (s.clemmings); Anton Chekov, Oscar Wilde; Conan Doyle & so many more eternal greats..!
2007-10-31 19:36:46 · update #1
I like short stories too. Do you know the series Best American Short Stories? Or the O'Henry Awards? Great ways to learn of short story writers I would not otherwise have heard of.
Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite short story writers. Her works are humorous and always have some kind of an underlying religious motif. Sometimes it's a very strange religious motif, but it is there.
Sherman Alexie has been writing some very good stories lately.
2007-10-31 19:14:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack London wrote some great short stories. So did John Updike, Bernard Malamud, James Thurber and Dorothy Parker, also Italo Calvino, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Conner... many of the people known principally for longer work wrote short masterpieces as well; and we never forget those who wrote for magazines-- they came out with some great stuff too!
A lot of the short stories we call masterpieces are in collections now, to be found under many names but all with "short story" there somewhere... if there are any reading this who would like a collection, ask at your favorite bookstore and they will be waiting for you to take them home.
Short stories are treasures that can be read over and over, each time with a slightly different slant that gives new meaning, like a diamond with many facets. Let 'em shine!
2007-10-31 20:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by LK 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jeffrey Deaver's Twisted is a pretty good collection of short stories. You might want to try Roald Dahl as well.
2007-10-31 19:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by charites21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stephen king has great short story collections...and i'm a fan of john cheever's, as well.
2007-10-31 19:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by vanessa c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once upon a time ....
there was a king
and he had 21 queens.....
one day all his queens died .........................
The End
2007-11-01 09:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by Nash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋