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The Ultimate Short Stories Collection - Page 2

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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Collected Stories (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Collected Stories
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Eudora Welty)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant (Guy De Maupassant)
The Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant
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Guy De Maupassant
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub (Philip K. Dick)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub
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Philip K. Dick
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Second Variety (Philip K. Dick)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Second Variety
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Philip K. Dick
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing (Philip K. Dick)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing
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Philip K. Dick
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 4: The Days of Perky Pat (Philip K. Dick)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 4: The Days of Perky Pat
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Philip K. Dick
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: The Little Black Box (Philip K. Dick)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: The Little Black Box
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Philip K. Dick
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig (Stefan Zweig)
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Stefan Zweig
The Collected Tales (Nikolai Gogol)
The Collected Tales
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Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Works of Nathanael West (Nathanael West)
The Collected Works of Nathanael West
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Nathanael West
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Complete Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (Marcel Proust)
The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Mark Twain)
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark (Muriel Spark)
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark
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Muriel Spark
The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving (Washington Irving)
The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving
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Washington Irving
The Complete Stories (Clarice Lispector)
The Complete Stories
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Clarice Lispector
The Complete Stories (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories
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Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories (Franz Kafka)
The Complete Stories
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Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories (Truman Capote)
The Complete Stories
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Truman Capote
The Complete Stories (J.G. Ballard)
The Complete Stories
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J.G. Ballard
The Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)
The Complete Stories
68
Zora Neale Hurston
The Complete Stories (Thomas Hardy)
The Complete Stories
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Thomas Hardy
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Dark Tales (Shirley Jackson)
Dark Tales
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Shirley Jackson
The Dead (James Joyce)
The Dead
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James Joyce
Dear Life (Alice Munro)
Dear Life
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Alice Munro
Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories
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Thomas Mann
Different Seasons (Stephen King)
Different Seasons
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Stephen King
Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Jeffrey Gantz)
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
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Jeffrey Gantz
The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)
The Enormous Radio
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John Cheever
Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O'Connor)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
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Flannery O'Connor
The Eyes Have It (Philip K. Dick)
The Eyes Have It
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Philip K. Dick
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
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Edgar Allan Poe
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