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world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot,...

A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of...

Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the...

Sandmann) is a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces). The story is told by...

Swimmer" is a short story by American author John Cheever. It was originally published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964, and later in the short-fiction collections...

Portrait" (Russian: Портрет) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835. It...

Sand". Borges has stated that the inspiration for this story came from H. G. Wells' short stories "The Crystal Egg" and "The Door in the Wall". In Volume...

(acronym of Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a 1988 science fiction short story by the British writer David Langford. It takes place in a setting where...

"1408" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. In 2002, "1408" was collected...

Homestead and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories Dubliners. It tells the story of Eveline, a teenager who plans to leave Dublin for...

A short story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically...

the story in 1998. A slightly expanded version of the story was published in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The...

by Jonathan Strahan. In 2019, the story was included in the collection of short stories Exhalation: Stories. The story is epistolary in nature, taking the...

list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published...

"Girl" is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid that was included in At the Bottom of the River (1983). It appeared in the June 26, 1978 issue of The...

Complete lists of the short stories that won these awards are at Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Short Story. The Science Fiction...

in 1895 (316 pages). The book contains nine short stories and a sequence of poems; while the first stories belong to the genres of supernatural horror...

One-Minute Stories. A number of print journals dedicate themselves to flash fiction. These include Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine....

change in his life. The short story "Cathedral" was included in the 1982 edition of Best American Short Stories. It is the final story in Carver's collection...

"Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection...