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The Art of the Story: Great Short Fiction

Our Maverick English Teacher reflects on the short story, and comes up with a list of 100 collections that clearly show what the form is capable of being. As always, the list is personal, idiosyncratic, and decidedly Un-canonical. Most of the volumes are single author collections; however, several seminal anthologies that helped define particular genres were necessarily included. Some of the books are classics, some are genre specific masterpieces, and some are singularly unclassifiable. All are worth a look; each has one or more gems that you might otherwise never experience.
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"The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen
"The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen
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20th Century Ghosts (Joe Hill)
20th Century Ghosts
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Joe Hill
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Alone With the Horrors (Ramsey Campbell)
Alone With the Horrors
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Ramsey Campbell
American Supernatural Fiction (Joshi)
American Supernatural Fiction
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Joshi
Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
Ancient Sorceries
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Algernon Blackwood
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft, by H.P. Lovecraft
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft, by H.P. Lovecraft
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The Best of Henry Kuttner (Henry Kuttner)
The Best of Henry Kuttner
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Henry Kuttner
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle
10
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Blood Kiss (Etchison)
The Blood Kiss
11
Etchison
Box Socials (Kinsella)
Box Socials
12
Kinsella
Collected Stories Stafford
Collected Stories Stafford
13
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Gogol
Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett (Dashiell Hammett)
Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett
15
Dashiell Hammett
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 (Samuel Beckett)
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
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Samuel Beckett
Complete Short Stories (Graham Greene)
Complete Short Stories
17
Graham Greene
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker)
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
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Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Western Stories
The Complete Western Stories
21
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Dangerous Visions
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Harlan Ellison
Dark Benediction (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
Dark Benediction
23
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Dark Country (Dennis Etchison)
The Dark Country
24
Dennis Etchison
The Dark Eidolon (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Dark Eidolon
25
Clark Ashton Smith
Dark Forces (Kirby McCauley)
Dark Forces
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Kirby McCauley
Darkness (Ellen Datlow)
Darkness
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Ellen Datlow
The Death Artist (Etchison)
The Death Artist
28
Etchison
Deathbird Stories (Harlan Ellison)
Deathbird Stories
29
Harlan Ellison
The Doors of His Face (Zelazny)
The Doors of His Face
30
Zelazny
Driftglass (Samuel R. Delany)
Driftglass
31
Samuel R. Delany
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners
32
Joyce
Duel (Richard Mathison)
Duel
33
Richard Mathison
Enough Rope (Lawrence Block)
Enough Rope
34
Lawrence Block
The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (Harlan Ellison)
The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective
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Harlan Ellison
Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O'Connor)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
36
Flannery O'Connor
Four for Tomorrow (Roger Zelazny)
Four for Tomorrow
37
Roger Zelazny
Four Past Midnight (Stephen King)
Four Past Midnight
38
Stephen King
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
39
From This Day Forward (Brunner)
From This Day Forward
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Brunner
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