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My fellow /lit/izens, I 've had an idea to increase and encourage readership on our board. We will have a poll collecting our favorite short stories of all time. To vote, just simply list your favorite short stories in this thread. You may list as many as you'd like within reason and you can vote for any short story you'd like.
When the polls over, I'll render the top fifty choices into a chart. But wait! This doesn't just end with the poll and chart. After we've got the chart, we'll start a /lit/ book club dedicated to reading these fifty stories by the end of the year. With fifty stories, I figure we can schedule to read one story just about each week. So each week we'll have a thread discussing what we thought of that week's story.
What do you think? I think it'd be pretty fun, and should get us talking about some new /lit/erature.

>> No.19681109

>>19681038
The Judge's House (Bram Stoker)
The Letter from Mohaun Los (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Last Incantation (Clark Ashton Smith)
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book (M.R. James)
Third Day, Novel 10 of Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Limes From Sicily (Luigi Pirandello)
The Mask (Robert W. Chambers)
That's enough for today.

>> No.19681122

>>19681038
The Tell-Tale Heart

>> No.19681134

>>19681109
The White People

>> No.19681168

>>19681134
I don't like it, but I love A Fragment Of Life.

>> No.19681429

>>19681134
>>19681168
Redpill me on Arthur Machen, I've never heard of him.

>> No.19681472

Maybe you shouly include links and tell us why you like the short stories.

The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm
>Very short, quick read. Early psychological horror about the limiting and limited role of women during Victorian times. Plenty of subtext. Wife of a phsysician is kept locked up 'for her own benefit' and turns insane - or does she?

The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty (1923)
https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sniper.html
>Again, very short. Has a surprise in store. Two snipers duel it out on opposing rooftops during the Irish Civil War. Brutality and senselessness of war, well written.

Before the Law by Franz Kafka (1915)
https://youtu.be/WAkvO-32py0
>Orson Welles animated version from his 1962 film adaptation of The Trial.

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>>19681429
Weird fiction writer, I had to read him back in 2008 when I was in secondary school and I rediscovered him a few years ago. He excels at piercing the veil of reality slowly, little by little, almost dreamily.
If anyone is interested in going balls deep, this anthology is the ultimate collection of his fiction.

>> No.19681514

>>19681491
Absolutely based. Thanks, fren, I'll look into this. A friend of mine got me into reading some of China Mieville's stuff, and he's supposed to be like "New Weird," so I figure it's about time I get into the source material. Seeing as it's paperback, shouldn't be too pricey either.

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>>19681038
It's me again
Have fun

>> No.19682039

>>19681038
The Kreutzer Sonata
Master and Man
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Nose
The Overcoat
Just Before the War With the Eskimos
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

>> No.19682569

bump

>> No.19683241

bump

>> No.19683358

Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Really neat, you should be able to read it in a night.

http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html

>> No.19683628

The Gospel According to Mark, for me the best short story Borges ever wrote.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/10/23/the-gospel-according-to-mark

>> No.19684097

bump

>> No.19684170

>>19683628
The writing feels very off but I liked it. Don't know what to make of the girl though.

>> No.19684829

The Lightning-Rod Man. Herman Melville
Typhoon. Joseph Conrad
The Blue Hotel. Stephen Crane
The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky. Stephen Crane
A Perfect Day For Bananafish. JD Salinger
The Great Wall of China. Franz Kafka
A Passion In The Desert. Honore de Balzac
The Atheist's Mass. Honore de Balzac
Monty's Friend. William L Alden
Scanners Live in Vain. Cordwainer Smith
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince. Ralph Adams Cram
The Dead Valley. Ralph Adams Cram
The Dark Eidolon. Clark Ashton Smith
Mother of Toads. Clark Ashton Smith
The Uncharted Isle. Clark Ashton Smith
The Alchemist. HP Lovecraft
The Small People. Thomas Ligotti

>> No.19684887

>>19684829
I love the dreamlike atmosphere of The Uncharted Isle, in particular when he's looking at the stars.

>> No.19684897

For me its The Queen of Spades by Pushkin.

>> No.19684922

Maybe not high literature but I love The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard.

>> No.19685274

Little Match Girl - Andersen
A Report to an Academy - Kafka
A Hunger Artist - Kafka
Viy - Gogol
Domnişoara Cristina - Eliade(dunno if it has been translated or not)

>> No.19686409

>>19681038
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
The Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
The Renegade - Albert Camus
The Dead Man - Georges Bataille
Madame Edwarda - Georges Bataille
Johnny 23 - William Burroughs
Fragments of a Hologram Rose - William Gibson
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges
The Lottery in Babylon - Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
All the Assholes in the World Plus Mine - Charles Bukowski
Last Respects - Danilo Kiš
The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
The Nose - Nikolai Gogol
The Queen of Spades - Alexandr Pushkin

>> No.19686474

>>19681491
Thanks, I'll give him a try. Btw that looks like a nice library, any more pics? What's your favorite thing on your library?

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>>19686474
It's a small bookshelf in a corner of the bedroom. I have some old penguin paperbacks, Vintage editions, weird fiction, books in spanish, science fiction, etc.

>> No.19686539

>>19686525
>Tales from Moominvalley
Hm. Based, i want to say?

>> No.19686650

>>19681038
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville)
The Horla (Maupassant)
The Evening with Monsieur Teste (Valéry)
Cavalry Story (Hofmannsthal)
Gladius Dei (Thomas Mann)
At the Prophet’s (Thomas Mann)
Echo’s Bones (Beckett)
The Madness of the Day (Blanchot)
Finocchio, or the Tale of a Man with a Long Nose (Alexander Theroux)

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>>19686525
World's most boring man

>> No.19686827

>>19684922
It doesn't have to be 'high' literature, I'd like for this to be fun! So pulp, noir, sci-fi, all is welcome!

>> No.19687616

>>19681038
A Good Man is Hard to Find - O'Connor
Good Country People - O'Connor
The Raid - Steinbeck

>> No.19688221

>>19686525
Very nice, you're the anon who read Les enfants terribles!
>>19686692
rude

>> No.19688320

The Most Dangerous Game is the best short story ever, don't even reply to me.

>> No.19688429

Young Goodman Brown
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Interlopers
The Dead
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Big Two-Hearted River
Hills Like White Elephants
A Clean Well Lighted Place
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning
The Bear
A Perfect Day for Bananfish
For Esme with Love and Squalor
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Sailor off the Bremen
Imagine Kissing Pete
The Enormous Radio
The State of Grace (Brodkey)
Out with the Old (Yates)
Sonny’s Blues
Neighbors
They’re Not Your Husband
Cathedral
In the Garden of North American Martyrs
A Room Forever
Trilobites
The Pugilist at Rest
Tarantula
Cold Snap
Young Lions (Edward P. Jones)

>> No.19688963

>>19688320
Why not? I agree with you

>> No.19688974

>>19688320
It’s cute.
But to think it’s the best story ever is pure plebbery.

>> No.19689847

>>19688429
Based picks. How is Yates, I've never read him. Does he fit in with that sortof post-war upper middle class thing that Cheever and Updike had going?

>> No.19690018

>>19681038
Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener
Borges - Pierre Menard
Balzac - A Passion in the Desert
Maupassant - The Horla
Woolf - Street Haunting
Chekov - The Black Monk
Joyce - Eveline
Joyce - The Sisters
Carver - A Small, Good Thing
Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Cortázar - Continuity of Parks
Vila-Matas - Death by Saudade
Bocaccio - Day, 3 Story 10
Bolaño - Detectives
Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary
MR James - The Mezzotint
Kafka - A Hunger Artist
Beckett - Echo's Bones

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>>19690018
>menards

>> No.19690032

>>19690023
kek

>> No.19690069

>>19689847
Yates does share the same New York and suburbs vibe of Cheever and to a lesser extent Updike. He writes more about fuckups though. And loneliness and mental illness.
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a great short story collection

>> No.19690077

>>19681038
Check out The Challenge From Beyond, a masterful short story for the ages. It's by HPL and four or five of his friends (including REH, who did the climax); each contributed a segment, picking up where the last left off.

>> No.19690123

>>19681038
Aziz and Aziza - the story of my life

>> No.19690179

>>19686525
Holy shit, I recognize your shelf from one of the very first bookie threads. I was the anon asking you about the Magus.

>> No.19690189

Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Faulkner, Barn Burning
Jackson, The Lottery
Machen, The Great God Pan
Hoffman, The Golden Pot
Barthelme, The Balloon
Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
O'Connor, Revelation

>> No.19690213

I like Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

>> No.19690629

>>19681429
Machen was one of the authors HPL praised most highly, same tier as Poe and the Yellow King guy.

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>>19688221
>>19690179
I'm here to recommend and read recommendations, and now that we are talking about short stories I compel you people to read this anthology. Some of the best mystery short stories I've ever read.

>> No.19692458

>>19691025
That is a good collection.

>> No.19692624

Every Millhauser collection. Does anyone here likes him too?

>> No.19692640

>>19692624
Haven’t read him but got recommended Edwin Mullhouse recently; is it good?

>> No.19692689

ctrl-f murakami, 0 results. Wow thats sad considering its they're the only decent thing he's ever written and the entire reason he ever got popular.
read "Barn Burning" and "The Second Bakery Attack" by Murakami if you know whats good for you.
Aside from that all my favorite short stories are from obscure fin-de-siecle authors like say this book "Alcina and Other Stories by Guido Gozzano."
I would have linked directly to the Snuggly Books page who published it but it appears as thought its been removed? Did I buy the last copy or something?

>> No.19692999

>>19681472
>about the limiting and limited role of women during Victorian times.
fuck off nobody cares about dead white women

>Irish Civil War
le war = le bad

>Orson Welles animated version
really? you want me to watch a story or read it?

>> No.19693144

>>19692999
What's it like to be a big bitch?