Short Stories

A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre.

Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks.
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Demon Song
Extremity
Why I Love Horror
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons
For the Rest of Us: 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons
This Is How We Roll
Acquired Taste
Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror
Issues With Authority
Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Folklore Creatures
If a Digitized Tree Falls
Follow the Lonesome Trail: A Wild West Anthology
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)
رق الحبيب
Good Neighbors (Alibis Collection, #5)
All Manner of Thing Shall Be (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Small Things (Alibis Collection, #6)
Eerie Basin
False Note (Alibis Collection, #3)
So Late in the Day
A Welcome Reunion
The Skydivers (Alibis Collection, #4)
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Natural Selection
Mistletoe Murders 2 (Mistletoe Murders #2)
The Sublet
Free Four by Veronica RothDestroy Me by Tahereh MafiGlitches by Marissa MeyerHana by Lauren OliverSummer's Crossing by Julie Kagawa
YA Short Stories and Novellas
680 books — 1,180 voters
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelSuch a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction
585 books — 1,241 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,302 books — 1,568 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,756 books — 1,044 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Quick Reads
1,060 books — 718 voters
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanNight Shift by Stephen        KingScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Most Terrifying Short Stories
374 books — 493 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Your Life and Others
Tenth of December
The Lottery
Exhalation
Dubliners
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Nine Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The Lottery and Other Stories
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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