Dare to read 25 surprisingly scary short stories that will haunt your thoughts. These tales of psychological dread and ...

“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

Anton Chekhov transformed the short story genre by turning ordinary lives, quiet heartbreak and human contradictions into ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

In the Mt Victoria tunnel, a chirpy driver beeps three times. Someone else chips in with a Toot toot! June responds with one loud, long blast of her horn. She needs a holiday. She wishes for a blanket ...

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The story of the writer who called himself O. Henry could almost be an O. Henry story. The writer—his real name was William Sidney Porter—had a secret, and he spent most of his adult life trying to ...