What is your favorite Short Story book?

[pattern_recog]

My favorite would have to be the complete collection of Kafka's short stories, but what about you people?

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

Anything Edgar A. Poe or H.P. Lovecraft

/thread

 

[fenrizz]

Anything Edgar A. Poe or H.P. Lovecraft

/thread

How can I compete?
I'll just have to agree, but note that I haven't read too much Lovecraft.

 

[Artemis923]

Yeah, I can't think of anything short-storyish that beats Lovecraft in my mind.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

I'm very partial to Poe myself, but my favourite must be Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. Though it does have some poems as well.

It's a really good collection of stories, poems and yarns.

Edit: There's even a Lovecraft inspired Sherlock Holmes story. Or a Holmes sort of story at least.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

After the Plague by T.C. Boyle

 

[Beltom]

My copy of the Necronomicion, a compilation of all of H.P.Lovecraft's short stories and poems.
"Looks up the thread"
Seems like he's popular here.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

Anything Edgar A. Poe or H.P. Lovecraft

/thread

How can I compete?
I'll just have to agree, but note that I haven't read too much Lovecraft.

Hence my "/thread" comment

P.S. read more Lovecraft (he is super-duper)

 

[vladtehimpaler]

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. Only cause it messes with your head.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Sweet Heart of the Song Trabong
Don't ask

 

[captainwalrus]

Dubliners by James Joyce. The entire collection is simply sublime. "The Dead" ranks among my favorite short stories of all time.

 

[Lexodus]

'The Necronomicon', by H.P Lovecraft.

'Twisted', by Jeffrey Deaver.

'More Twisted', by Jeffrey Deaver.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I'd have to say The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov.

Anything Edgar A. Poe or H.P. Lovecraft

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Dude, you can't declare /thread on yourself. Someone else has to do it. It's the law of the internet.

 

[Kilaknux]

I recently came across a collection of pulp fiction stories from the 30s. I really quite like it, great, simple stories.

 

[ChaosHazard]

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton.

Admittedly, not really short stories, but they're poems that have a premise and a conflict.

 

[lacktheknack]

A lovely little collection of Joan Aiken called "Shadows and Moonshine". Only if you like fantasy, though.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

All six volumes of Clive Barker's Books of Blood are fantastic. Barker is undoubtedly one of the most creative minds in the modern horror industry. The short stories in the Books of Blood are fantastic, and Barker even puts them all into the best framing narative I have ever seen. If you love horror, and are ready for splatterpunk at its best, you can not go wrong with the Books of Blood.

 

[Satin6T]

Philip K Dick short stories are the best

 

[Flying-Emu]

I like the Brothers Grimm, but... Yeah, Lovecraft kind of takes the thread.

So the rest of this thread is pretty much redundant. Bleargh.