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10 Aug 2016, 5:30 pm

Which short stories do you consider the best ever written?


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10 Aug 2016, 8:54 pm

Brian Lumley is one of the best short story writers there is. I also love erotic stories posted on the internet. N. by Stephen King is one of the most disturbing things I have ever viewed.


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11 Aug 2016, 12:50 am

"A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia" by Victor Pelevin is quite good. I remember enjoying a collection of short stories by Nadine Gordimer but can't remember any of the titles.



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11 Aug 2016, 5:06 am

"The Burrow" by Franz Kafka
"On Exactitude in Science" and "Shakespeare's Memory" by Jorge Luis Borges



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11 Aug 2016, 2:40 pm

I can't possibly choose the best, because I love short fiction. But among my favorites is Worms Of The Earth, by Robert E. Howard. It's one of the blackest gems ever written in Heroic Fiction.


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12 Aug 2016, 11:31 am

I usually read Sword and Sorceress anthologies.


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