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House of the Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories 13 reviews
Yasunari Kawabata
Kodansha International, 2004
3 Stories, 1 Theme - The loneliness and desires of old age
+ Love and Death
+ Pushing the envelope
+ The terror of lust by the approach of death
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The Complete Stories43 reviews
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1995
A Treasure of Madness
+ The best place to start with Kafka.
+ Excellent introduction to Kafka unique style
+ His Basic Short Story Collection
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The Lottery and Other Stories79 reviews
Shirley Jackson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
Brilliant stories from a literary fifth columnist
+ The Best Literature You Will EVER Read
+ My All-Time Favorite Book
+ Pointless ritualism
+ Always a pleaser....
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories59 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1989
A Storytelling Poet (for the everyman)
+ Phota stories
+ Paeans to a lived life
+ "Who knows why we do what we do?"
+ Nice introduction to contemporary writing
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Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces 1 review
editor Michelle Sewell
GirlChild Press, 2006
Way More Than I Expected
In the interests of full disclosure, I should first say that the editor of this anthology, Michelle Sewell, is a close friend. In addition, I am the photographer who took the cover photo. Other than that, I had no imput into the idea or formulation of the anthology, that was all Michelle. And ...
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Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales 304 reviews
Stephen King
Pocket, 2003
King's Most Rewarding Collection
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ The Perfect Stephen King "Sampler"
+ A few great stories, and some more pretty good ones.
+ Something for Everyone
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Sweet Land Stories12 reviews
E.L. Doctorow
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
Doctorow's Sweet Land
+ short and sweet
+ Doctorow is always worth reading
+ Stories that have the tinge of real life
+ Great Stories...
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999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense11 reviews
Al Sarrantonio
Harper Paperbacks, 2001
Newest Favorite Anthology
+ By far the best horror collection I've read
+ rapaccini's daughter
+ You never know what will keep you awake at night
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 2)13 reviews
Philip K. Dick
Citadel, 2002
Laboratory Of The Strange
+ cool book but title story is waaaaay to short
+ The Evolution Of Dick's Short Stories
Philip K. Dick's short stories are the best work of one of the greatest ( science) fiction writers in the history of the genre. His spare style leaves plenty for the imagination, as opposed to those writers who feel it necessary to fill their pages with endless technological detail. His staid ...
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Portraits in the Dark: A Collection of Short Stories5 reviews
Nancy O. Greene
iUniverse, Inc., 2006
Portraits in the dark: A collection of short stories
+ Dark and disturbing, but very good
+ Dark, dark, dark...
+ Stories that will blow your mind
+ Engaging tales probing the dark recesses of the human psyche
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe70 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe
Doubleday, 1966
The Enduring Master of the Macabre
+ POEtic Justice
+ poes book
+ The undisputed master of gothic horror.
+ The mind of a genius
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Collected Stories10 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
The best collection of short stories I've ever read!
+ Incredible, as always!
+ Highly Recommend This Short Story Collection: Good Reading.
+ Enchantingly Surreal
+ Stories by a Master
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Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories12 reviews
T.C. Boyle
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Short story lover's gold mine
+ Very enjoyable reading
+ (3.5 stars) Boyled Over
+ Boyle fan
+ Hit and Miss
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Bloodchild and Other Stories: Second Edition19 reviews
Octavia E. Butler
Seven Stories Press, 2005
I'll Miss Octavia Butler
+ Not One Word Wasted
+ the short fiction of Octavia Butler, the outstanding Speech Sounds
+ Bloodchild
+ New admirer of Octavia Butler
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Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-19914 reviews
Ramsey Campbell
Tor Books, 2005
Don't be alone with this book
+ Some of the best ever
+ Horror stories, each one more chilling than the last
I couldn't possibly read "Alone with the Horrors" straight through in one sitting. Ramsey Campbell has the gift of isolating his readers from their comfortable surroundings (I read these stories sitting next to our Christmas tree, surrounded by snoring cats), and plunging them into a freezing, ...
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton9 reviews
Edith Wharton
Scribner, 1997
A timeless treasure of tales
+ This book needs to come with a disclaimer!
+ A Great Collection of Scary Stories, and a Great Cover
+ Delayed Impact
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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection11 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1995
Beautiful writing
+ F Scott Fitzawesome
+ Fitzgerald's Stories--Short and Sweet
+ A wonderful, quick read
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce9 reviews
Ambrose Bierce
Bison Books, 1984
I suppose this must be death
+ No Library is complete without this book!
+ Great collection of short stories, the title is incorrect
+ Civil War Survivor and Damn Good Author
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High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-20068 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates
Harper Perennial, 2007
A dark collection that is truly gripping!
+ Read this as your introduction
+ Classic Collection
+ The Best Oates Anthology Since 1994's Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
+ Comprehensive
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The Complete Stories
Alice Walker
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005
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