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The Ultimate Short Stories Collection

Short stories can showcase an author's talents and enthrall readers, even in a story as short as 5-10 pages. Their narratives can move at speed, whilst also conveying the full range of emotions and writing techniques. This list showcases stories from a wide range of genres, but I've found that the best short stories tend to be science-fiction or horror stories, genres that, ironically, I don't seem to read much in terms of novels. The list also includes what I consider to be the best collections of short stories, and many specific short stories themselves which I consider to be the best to have ever been written. I hope you enjoy the list and some of these stories.
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The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (Agatha Christie)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (Agatha Christie)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
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An Outpost of Progress (Joseph Conrad)
An Outpost of Progress (Joseph Conrad)
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Araby (James Joyce)
Araby (James Joyce)
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Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
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Best Ghost Stories (Lefanu) (Lefanu)
Best Ghost Stories (Lefanu) (Lefanu)
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Big Two-Hearted River (Ernest Hemingway)
Big Two-Hearted River (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Birds (Daphne Du Maurier)
The Birds (Daphne Du Maurier)
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The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
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The Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx)
Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx)
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (H. P. Lovecraft)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (H. P. Lovecraft)
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Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
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Cat Person (Kristen Roupenian)
Cat Person (Kristen Roupenian)
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Charles Dickens)
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Cinderella (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm)
Cinderella (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm)
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Civil Peace (Chinua Achebe)
Civil Peace (Chinua Achebe)
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The Classic Horror Stories (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Classic Horror Stories (H.P. Lovecraft)
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Annie Proulx)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Annie Proulx)
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Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Collected Short Stories (E.M. Forster)
Collected Short Stories (E.M. Forster)
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Collected Short Stories (Patrick White)
Collected Short Stories (Patrick White)
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Collected Short Stories (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Collected Short Stories (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Collected Short Stories (Graham Greene)
Collected Short Stories (Graham Greene)
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The Collected Short Stories (Jean Rhys)
The Collected Short Stories (Jean Rhys)
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Collected Short Stories (Anthony Trollope)
Collected Short Stories (Anthony Trollope)
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Collected Short Stories Volume 1 (W. Somerset Maugham)
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 (W. Somerset Maugham)
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Collected Short Stories Volume 2 (W. Somerset Maugham)
Collected Short Stories Volume 2 (W. Somerset Maugham)
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Collected Short Stories Volume 3 (W. Somerset Maugham)
Collected Short Stories Volume 3 (W. Somerset Maugham)
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Collected Short Stories Volume 4 (W. Somerset Maugham)
Collected Short Stories Volume 4 (W. Somerset Maugham)
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Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov)
Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Collected Stories (Saul Bellow)
Collected Stories (Saul Bellow)
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Collected Stories (Elizabeth Bowen)
Collected Stories (Elizabeth Bowen)
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Collected Stories (William Faulkner)
Collected Stories (William Faulkner)
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories
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Collected Stories (Raymond Chandler)
Collected Stories (Raymond Chandler)
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