Truly great short stories

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Originally Posted by Silvia

I don't read many short stories, but my father loves Asimov and he introduced me to his writing...so, I would say"the last question"..

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Good one.

I'll add some of my favorites, off the top of my head:
"The fall of the house of Usher" - Poe. This one i guess is my favorite
"The Metamorphoses" - Kafka (I guess i'll consider it a long short story instead of a short novel. Really short stories by K that I really liked were "The Hunger Artist" and one that i dont know its name in English: "La Condena"?)
"Entropy" - Thomas Pynchon
"Calleidoscope" - Ray Bradbury
"The Visitor" - Dylan Thomas

Another great writer of short stories was sci-fi and mystery writer Fredric Brown. Is there anybody here into him?
Lovecraft is great too.

I forgot about Dostoyevsky's "White Nights", i was considering it as a short novel instead of a short story, i dont know why. I guess this one along with Poe's "The Fall..." are my favourites.

william faulkner's a rose for emily.

Will you all laugh at me if I say

Roald Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter

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It truly is the perfect murder....

all time? hard. I love short stories so much, especially Jack London's work, I grew up reading his adventures. Guess I'll go with any one of Jack London's short stories.

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Originally Posted by ;5107

Poe - The Cask of Amontillado
Vonnegut - The Boy who Hated Girls
Doyle - The Adventure of the Speckled Band

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I read The Cask of Amontillado back in high school, many years ago ... and I loved it! Perhaps in great part because it was discussed thoroughly in class, thanks to my Literature teacher.

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Originally Posted by bouquin

my favorite short story writers:
Roald Dahl
E.L. Doctorow
Guy de Maupassant

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update:
I have just finished reading Interpreter of Maladies and now include Jhumpa Lahiri among my favorite short story writers!

I love Nabokov's short stories, my favourite that comes to mind is 'The Admiralty Spire'.

A Rose for Emily - Faulkner
The Cask of Amontillado - Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe
The Life You Save May be Your Own - O'Connor
To Build a Fire - London
The Sniper - Liam O'Flaherty
The Minister's Black Veil - Hawthorne

I just finished reading John Steinbeck's The Pearl and I'm going to go ahead and consider it not only a short story, but one of my favorites.

a lot of the short stories by ray bradbury.

The Wall by John Paul Sartre is my favorite short story.

A Passion in the Desert - Balzac
Lukardis - Wassermann
The War Prayer - Twain
Kannitverstan - Hebel

I couldn't possibly list only one. I have a folder of short stories from school last year, somewhere. I couldn't find it, and the only one that comes to mind is The Queen of Spades.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor'
"The Chaser" - John Collier
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" - E. Hemingway
"Hills Like White Elephants" - E. Hemingway
"The Babysitter" - Robert Coover

Very very difficult question, there are a lot of great tales, but my personal list maybe can be like this:

-Message found in a bottle (Edgar Alan Poe)
-The Dunwich horror (HP. Lovecraft)
-The diary of a madman (Guy de Maupassant)
-Carcasona (Lord Dunsany)

Good question. If I were to pick just one I would say "the Zahir" by Borges. Other goodies not mentioned here are:
- "There will come soft rains" by Bradbury
- "Studio 5, the Stars", by Ballard
- "birthday of the infanta" by Wilde
- "Automatic tiger" by Kit Reed
- "The 9 billion names of god" by Clarke
- "The autopsy" by Michael Shea
- "The copper rain" by Lugones

There are so many. But my favourite is the Zahir.

I liked The Lottery. I forget who it's by.