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What's a good short story collection that isn't talked about much?

>> No.15077605

>>15077600
South of no North
Exterminator!

>> No.15077608

What short story collections does /lit/ even talk about

>> No.15077611

>>15077600
trilobites by breece d'j pancake

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>>15077600

The short story is probably my favourite form. Here's a few collections I reread constantly, which (almost) never get a mention on /lit/:

>J.D.Salinger, Nine Stories
OK, there are some fillers. But Bananafish is really good, and For Esmé is marvellous.

>Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Super-readable, super-comfy. Holmes+Watson = best duo ever.

>Roald Dahl, Over To You
His children's stuff and Tales of the Unexpected are good, but I like this best. Madame Rosette is just marvellous.

>Damon Runyon, Runyon on Broadway
The Snatching Of Bookie Bob, etc. Who'd a thunk simply eliminating past and future tenses would work so well?

>Cathedral, Raymond Carver
Everyone copied him through the 80s & 90s, but there's a reason they copied him, and it's that he's really, really good.

>Conan the Barbarian, Robert E Howard
They're better than you think. (His lighter ones about the prizefighting sailor are very readable too.)

>> No.15077721

I'm reading Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology from Longman press and it's awful.

>> No.15077734

>>15077711

Another guy whom I like a lot:
>R.A.Lafferty.

Sometimes he can be a bit preachy, but he's almost always enjoyable. I remember especially:
>Narrow Valley
and
>Land of the Great Horses.
Usually i don't like writers who rely on ideas, but his ideas are good and original (and he doesn't take them too seriously). Over and over again he pulls something out that you simply didn't see coming, but which still feels satisfying.

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This guy was considered a bit of a meme because he worked on a novel for over 30 years and then when he finally published it, it was disappointing. But this short story collection is why so many people convinced themselves that the novel would be an all time great.