Tag: short stories
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Three short stories by Katherine Plumhoff
Katherine Plumhoff is new to me. Some of her short stories are unforgettable.
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Don’t Look Now: Selected Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier’s short stories are some of the best I’ve ever read in any genre. She was a master and I wish I’d read her years ago
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Runaway by Alice Munro
Munro is a genius, but not a binge-read. That’s a good thing
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Collected Stories by Carson McCullers
These characters are lonely, despondent, often spiralling, and nobody writes them as well as McCullers.
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The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
Learn from my mistake, and spread these grim but excellent short stories out over time.
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Best short stories of 2024 (and 2023)
LitHub published a handful of stories from the upcoming anthology, and some from last year’s too
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What Draws Us Near edited by Keith Cadieux and Adam Petrash
The first anthology from Little Ghosts Books — an independent, queer-owned horror bookstore and publisher based in Toronto. It’s good.