__My Favorite Short Stories

Submitted by Oedipus on Wed, 05/10/2006 - 12:16
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  1. 55 Miles to the Gas Pump by Annie Proulx
  2. 1408 by Stephen King
  3. Act of God by Jack McDevitt
  4. Autopsy Room Four by Stephen King
  5. Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  6. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
  7. Cain Rose Up by Stephen King
  8. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
  9. Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fé, AD 1492) by Salman Rushdie
  10. The Dachau Shoe by W. S. Merwin
  11. The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
  12. Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King
  13. An Encounter with an Interviewer by Mark Twain
  14. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
  15. Hotel at the End of the Road by Stephen King
  16. In Her Eyes by Gorman Bechard
  17. In the Deathroom by Stephen King
  18. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
  19. The Last Leaf by O. Henry
  20. The Last Rung on the Ladder by Stephen King
  21. The Ledge by Stephen King
  22. The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King
  23. The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King
  24. Million $$$ Baby by F.X. Toole
  25. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
  26. My Wiccan, Wiccan Ways by Brad Linaweaver
  27. Nona by Stephen King
  28. The One Who Waits by Ray Bradbury
  29. The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
  30. The Piano by Aníbal Monteiro Machado
  31. Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King
  32. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
  33. Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer
  34. Sleepy by Anton Chekhov
  35. Strawberry Spring by Stephen King
  36. Survivor Type by Stephen King
  37. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
  38. Three-Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
  39. The Tonto Woman by Elmore Leonard
  40. View From the Fourteenth Floor by Greta Christina
  41. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
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__My Favorite Novels
CaptMal05/10/2006

No Edgar Allan Poe? :-(

Also, have you read Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets by Jack Finney? I loved that; very thrilling and gripping.

And since you have so much King on your list, have you heard the audio or read the print version of 1408? It originally appeared as part of an audiobook collection, and though I've yet to hear that version--which I've heard is chilling--the print version is one of the most frightening things I've ever read.

Oedipus05/11/2006

I will be adding some Edgar Allan Poe, I've got the Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, I just need to look through and see which ones I've read because I haven't read them all.

I've heard the audio version and read 1408 by Stephen King, it's a great story.

lbangs05/11/2006

I am not even a big Stephen Crane fan, but The Open Boat is a fantastic short story. Good choice!

L. Bangs

Oedipus05/11/2006

Yeah, I just finished The Open Boat yesterday, it was great. I really like Stephen Crane's writing, I just finished Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and now I'm reading The Red Badge of Courage.

H.G. Wells called The Open Boat "the finest short story in English."

Nance09/14/2007

The Cask of Amontillado is my favorite of Edgar Allan Poe too!

Other favorites:
Ball of Fat, Guy de Maupassant
The Lady or the Tiger?, Frank Richard Stockton
A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
The City Coat of Arms, Franz Kafka
The Great Wall of China, Franz Kafka
The Burrow, Franz Kafka
The Judgment, Franz Kafka
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Before, I've read short stories of Maupassant, Gavalda, Bismuth and Proulx, but this is this year I discover short stories for what it is. I want to read more of them.