Gina Chung's collection is a fantastic medley of short stories that dance between literary fiction, fable, Korean folklore, and science fiction — and one that's full of emotional intelligence.

The stories in that book are interspersed with powerful, short “vignettes,” most no longer than a paragraph. The way he builds an emotional whole out of fragments is masterful in these pieces.

From terrifying grandmothers to murderous chattery teeth, I've picked out 13 of my favourite King short stories below, broken down by the collection you can find them in. Original image has been ...

Short stories offer a truncated story experience, not a complete one.They tend to be very limited in character development, and plot lines are symbolic, not literal, and/or they are self-conscious ...

That is the first line of an electrifying debut collection of short stories by writer and public school teacher, Sidik Fofana. It's called "Stories From the Tenants Downstairs." All but one story ...

And, like all great magical realism stories, the elements of other-worldliness are used to make a point about politics, nationhood, female friendship, and what happens when "self-improvement" goes ...

The delicate art of the short story is practiced in every literary genre, but it’s perhaps never more effective than when it’s deployed for horror. Yes, horror novels can be vast, 100,000-word ...

The story cannot be graphical or a comic, we will only be considering prose with no illustrations, diagrams, or pictures. The story can be as short as you wish but should be a maximum length of 500 ...

This week’s Bookshelf is about two new books, a collection of eerie short stories and a novel about gentrification in Atlanta, plus a celebration of books for young readers. Southern gothic ...