Short Story Nominations October?

[Rores28]

Should we start nominating for October?

[King Mob]

Yes yes yes why not!!! I will still think a little bit which story to nominate, though.

[Patrick_Bateman]

I nominate

The Black Monk - Chekhov

[Dark Muse]

For October, of course I have to nominate something Poe

I nominate Berenice becaue it is one I have not read yet.

[Rores28]

I'll just keep nominating David Foster Wallace till I wear ya'll down. "The Depressed Person"... just in time for seasonal affective disorder. This is from the collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.


In 1997 Wallace was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by editors of The Paris Review for "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6", which had appeared in the magazine.

Twelve of the "Interviews" were adapted into a stage play (Hideous Men) by Dylan McCullough in 2000, marking the first theatrical adaptation of any of Wallace's works. McCullough directed the premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August of 2000.

Actor John Krasinski of The Office has adapted and directed a film version on the "Brief Interviews" stories that was released in 2009. Julianne Nicholson plays Sara Quinn, the interviewer unnamed in the stories.

The #6 referred to is "The Depressed Person"

[bouquin]

The Gentle Boy by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[dfloyd]

But I love Poe. So in defference to the Dark Muse, I'll nominate 'The Fall of the House of Usher".

[Kyriakos]

I have a suggestion, since i am currently translating this. Arthur Machen's "the novel of the white powder".
It is not that long, just 20 something pages. And in my view one of the greatest horror stories ever written :)

You can easily find the text online since it is in the public domain. Just search for "The three impostors", it is one of the stories there.

[King Mob]

I will nominate Ray Bradbury's "The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs", since I've been wanting to read it for quite some time now.

Only one more nomination to go...

[baaaaadgoatjoke]

Ambrose Bierce - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge


In 2005, Kurt Vonnegut referred to "Occurrence" in his book A Man Without a Country as one of the greatest works of American literature, and called anyone who hadn't read it a "twerp".[1]

:P

[Rores28]

Ambrose Bierce - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge



:P

I actually read this story after reading A Man Without a Country... oddly enough my roommate had recommended this to me just a week before....

He also said you're a twerp if you haven't read Democracy In America, which I think we should nominate for November.