Elbow Room (short story collection) Puns

My favorite genres are: historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy.

Thank you in advance!

I'm looking for a collection of short stories that can be read in any order and are gripping yet short, so it's easy to read one or two stories at a time before bed.

My favourite short story collections are Roald Dahl's Ghost Stories, Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning, and the Sherlock Holmes stories.

I'm not looking for any genres in particular, but anything similar to those three would be especially appreciated.

Hi folks, I just finished reading the first Short Story Collection book. I bought it in Japanese since it's yet to be translated because I was curious about the side stories. I manage to read it by copying the text and translating it with a machine translation tool. Let me warn you right now that if you buy it, there is a DRM protection that makes you unable to copy&paste the text over a certain threshold. If you want to do what I did, you have to do some shenanigans to bypass such protection.

I figured that I could do a summary of the side stories while pointing out if I read such story anywhere else. That way you can decide better if you want to take a look at the book too. The stories range from part 1 to the beginning of part 4 (so those are spoilers for who is following the LN/prepubs), I'll list POV, what is about (I'll remain vague), where I remember reading it, and if there is an illustration.

Illustrations (part 4 spoilers): >Cover!<, >!<

1. (Part 1) >!POV: Tuuli - Tuuli's POV about Myne and her ideas right at the beginning of the story - (web novel chapter 6)!<
2. (Part 1) >!POV: Lutz - Lutz's story about going to collect parues with his family - (web novel chapter 13) - illustration!<
3. (Part 1) >!POV: Gunther - Gunther is worried about Myne doing something bad to the other kids after they destroyed her clay tables - (web novel chapter 18)!<
4. (Part 2) >!POV: Wilma - Wilma counseling Rosina right after becoming Myne's attendants - (P2V2 has the same side story, but from Rosina's POV) - [illustration](https://ascendance-of

What are your favorite short story collections?

I’ll start: Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver The October Country by Ray Bradbury I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Hi guys, i read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk last year and really enjoyed it. Ive been through most of Lovecrafts work now and need new suggestions for short story collections. Thanks in advance!

You don't have to rank your list either, you can just list 10 of your favorites! I'll put out a more detailed poll on Friday, but this is just to get the general feeling of how the sub feels about his bibliography before I get hard data. Here's my unranked list:

1. The Stand
2. IT
3. Needful Things
4. Skeleton Crew
5. Everything's Eventual
6. The Gunslinger
7. Desperation
8. The Regulators
9. Night Shift
10. The Waste Lands

I remember reading this short story in elementary school in Canada. It was in a collection of short stories that had a grey cover.

Fiction, maybe takes place in south america? Sort of a scary story. At least to a kid haha.

I think Jack London's To Build a Fire was in the collection too.

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who picked up a free copy! The giveaway is over, I’ve run out of free days on Amazon. But I’ll do another one when possible.

The Intellectual Barbarian: A Collection of Humourous Short Stories - Kindle edition by Colvin, Alex. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I've read all the classics and pretty much everything Stephen King has written but other than that I'm totally open to suggestions! TIA!

Brian Evenson's forthcoming story collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, is available to download in Kindle format for free on Edelweiss: https://www.edelweiss.plus/#sku=1566896118&page=1

So I just discovered Elizabeth Engstrom, specifically "The Northwoods Chronicles," which is specifically billed as a novel in story form, ie. there is no central narrative. Instead it is a collection of short stories around a specific setting and cast, none obviously related, but all hinting at a larger narrative that the reader kinda has to figure out on his own. Is it scary? No nightmares for me yet; I'd classify it as more "weird" than full-on horror. Is it good? About as much as you expect from a regular short story collection: some are mindblowing, some are good, some are meh, and some are just a big WTF (also prevalent in weird fiction).

So here's the thing. I am absolutely blown away by the "aimed short story" structure. I've seen lots of short story collections about a shared setting/cast/theme; at least a third of Stephen King's career does this. But a bunch of smaller stories, each self-contained, but all casting oblique glances at a shared plot, each holding a piece of a puzzle that's larger than any one story? THAT'S something I hadn't seen before, that I can recall.

So, educate me. Please tell me there are more examples of this? I NEED MORE!

EDIT: grammar is hard!

I have been devouring short stories lately and I would love recommendations for more, especially collections that are subversive, contain magical realism, or have a wide variety of piece lengths. Here are a few I’ve read recently that I loved:

1. Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian - 5/5 (I think this is probably my favorite collection that I’ve ever read)
2. The Tenth of December by George Saunders - 4/5
3. What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah- 5/5
4. New Micro edited by James Thomas - 5/5

Thanks!

Edit: Love the recommendations so far! I work at a bookstore so this thread will likely end up being my next paycheck. 🙃😂

Hi! I'd like to read to practice my Hebrew, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. I'm thinking it would be nice to read a collection of short stories, since I could keep a consistent level of practice by just aiming for one story a month, but I'm also open to novels.

Does anyone have any favorites? Wikipedia has this short list of Israeli short story writers –– is there anyone on it who you think is really good, or who uses simpler vocabulary or grammar? Or anyone who you think I should avoid because their language is really complex?

If its helpful, I recently did a test that said my Hebrew level is at the "intermediate high" ACTFL level.

Thanks for any help or suggestions you have!

Hi all! I'll be having a few weeks of a break between graduating and starting my new job in May, and would love to squeeze in a good, scary read! Short stories are my favorite form of horror: I've read every horror short story from Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, and a good handful from other authors (Brian Evenson's "A Collapse of Horses", some Clive Barkers). I would love to hear what you guys think would be a great short story collection to read. I've been considering Evenson's other short story compilation or maybe Robert McCammon. For more context, I'm not super hot on full-out monster stories and am most fond of weird, unsettling stuff (ex. Something Passed By), but I'm open to trying anything! Thanks in advance!

Sorry if i missed any these were the ones I could remember.

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Primarily I'm curious about collections that are just essentially just a bunch of short stories. Either from one artist or many.

Emily Carrol's THROUGH THE WOODS is another example I think of five short stories in one book:

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Woods-Emily-Carroll/dp/1442465964

thx!

I was thinking that I would finish 2-3 of my short stories and submit them to sci-fi magazines, when I realized that several authors I just started to follow are releasing short story collections, albeit I'm not sure if they were published somewhere else before.

Will this be a problem if I do get something published and then want to reprint the story in the future?

I know it sounds like every "wanna-be" writer but I like to understand things before I commit to them.

Looking for something to read after I finish up BotNS, I committed to the entire Solar Cycle but am looking for some smaller Gene Wolfe works to read in between. What are your favorites that you would recommend?

Fans Translation I am guessing exists.

Hey! For the life of me I haven’t been able to find ranked lists of specifically Ito’s short story collections, only stories individually. I was wondering if any of y’all have favorites out of the bunch.

To be specific, I’m talking about Fragments of Horror (3.5/5), Venus in the Blind Spot (3/5), Smashed (unread) , Shiver (unread), and Lovesickness (unread).

I bought this book years ago for my Kindle and forgot all about it. I just kept ignoring short story books in general forever.. But this year I've set myself to step out of my comfort zone and pick up short fiction.. This book has been my third short story anthology I read this year and it was simply amazing.

The prose was so well done that once I started reading a couple of paragraphs, I just went on ahead. When I was buying the book, from the title it felt like the stories are on the theme of pitching man against nature. But the majority of the stories are very, very subtle in exploring that idea, which I really liked. Instead of making things so apparent, you would kind of get the underlying feel of the concept of what the world has become in the future due to climate change and whatnot, in the context of these stories.

Overall, I feel glad that I picked up this book. And surely I will be following the work of this author. There is already her debut novel available based on the topics of nature and climate change. Right up my alley.

One story involved a child being shown an old woman’s collection of buttons. They see one they really like and steal it, then later when they feel guilty they realise they lost it. They end up confessing what they did. There’s a chance it’s a magic button but might be confusing it with a different story.

There was also a story about a kid and it was something about his bike.

There must have been other stories too, I remember liking the audio cassette tape as a kid. Can still hear the narrator saying “she looked and looked for the button, but she knew it wasn’t there.” I hear the voice stronger than I remember the actual words unfortunately.

Sorry there’s not much to go on. I’d love to find the audio again.

Kind of an odd request, but I'm looking for short books or short story collections that can be read in short spurts without much trouble. For example, it took us a couple months to read all the way through The Little Prince as we only read it about once a week and only for a few pages. Some stories in Smoke & Mirrors we've split up to 3 separate nights of reading. When we've tried books, it can be frustrating because of how irregular we read lends to us both forgetting where we're at in the story as well as not having much satisfaction from just a handful of pages read.

We don't mind younger target audiences(The Little Prince was great!) but enjoy all sorts. Wouldn't mind something like poerty books but I tend not to enjoy poetry collections by singular individuals or ones that are hyper-specific subject matter shared between all the poems. Bonus points for lgbt or unique settings(we both are heavy into world building).

Selling my Imaginary Authors sample collection after settling on a bottle of Slow Explosions.

Price: $25 shipped USPS Priority SOLD

Don't have the original box

Smaller samples are 2ml (Varying levels)

A City on Fire is 5ml (about 4ml remaining)

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Includes

• The Cobra and the Canary
• Sundrunk
• Every Storm a Serenade
• Whispered Myths
• Bulls Blood
• O. Unknown
• Cape Heartache
• Telegrama
• Slow Explosions
• The Soft Lawn

Will also throw in a sample of A City on Fire

I'm not looking for something like the Witcher, rather something that follows a character through totally different phases of their life, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age etc etc. Does anyone know of anything life this? Could be fantasy or sci-fi, or any sub-genre of the two :)

I have always wanted to be an author in my future. I love horror and thriller stories and want to start writing my own. However, I feel that I’m not experienced enough in writing fiction to start out with writing a novel. So, I’ve decided that I think I want to start with a short story collection. This way, I can get a feel for writing the kind of stories I want to write without focusing on one big novel.

With King being my favorite author, I feel that reading his short stories could seriously help me to learn how to write short stories. I won an award in my senior year of high school for a horror short story that I wrote, so I have hope that I’m going to be able to create some good stories. Reading King’s stories would definitely help me improve my writing, however.

So, what is his best short story collection? Or, the collection that you think would be best for someone who wants to write their own stories? Thank you in advance for the recommendations!

I recently got into horror short stories! Iv read John Langan, Laird Barron, and Brian Evenson, all great in their own ways. Does anyone have any horror story collections that they think is some of the best or really recommend? Thank you in advance!

I’m currently reading Skeleton Crew. It’s great so far!

Imago Sequence was good too

I’ve become kind of obsessed with single-author short story collections lately. Does anyone know of any good ones that straddle the sci-fi/horror line?

hi! what are some good short story and poetry collections specifically written in Filipino?

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Link to Amazon UK

https://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Barbarian-Collection-Humourous-Stories-ebook/dp/B0918RZR7R/