Short Fiction

The whole thing, in one sitting. Stories and single-author collections built for compression, where nothing is allowed to be merely furniture.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Short Fiction

• Spear — Nicola Griffith
• The Athiest's Mass — Honoré de Balzac
• Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Continuidad de los parques por Julio Cortz̀ar — Cintia Musina
• Goth — Otsuichi
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard — J.K. Rowling
• Dark Tales — Shirley Jackson
• Howls from the Dark Ages — P.L. McMillan
• Tales of Heresy — Dan Abnet / Lindsey Priestley / Dan Abnett / Mike Lee / Anthony Reynolds / James Swallow / Gav Thorpe / Graham McNeill / Matthew Farrer / Nick Kyme
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories — Ken Liu
• White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Mouth: Stories — Puloma Ghosh
• House of Mist — María Luisa Bombal
• Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark
• Scions of the Storm (The Horus Heresy Short Story) — Anthony Reynolds
• Strange Dogs — James S. A. Corey
• No Fair Maidens from Earth to Mars — Rowan Hill
• A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
• Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones
• Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love — George R.R. Martin
• La bruja de abril y otros cuentos (April Witch / Fog Horn / Other Foot / Veldt) — Ray Bradbury
• The Wolf of Ash and Fire (The Horus Heresy) — Graham McNeill
• Collected Fictions — Andrew Hurley
• The Pit and the Pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Anthology
• Cult Fiction
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Epistolary Fiction
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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