Good Short Fiction to Read

I ran across one comment by a fan that Sturgeon can be reckoned the greatest short story writer of the 20th century. Such hyperbole is forg...

First published in 1950, this short story goes thirteen pages and has all the perfection of a Greek tragedy. The protagonist, Roald Halvors...

This fifty-seven page story first saw publication in 1931. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was the definite successor to Poe, Hawthorne, Chambers...

First published in 1959, and running a mere eleven pages, we encounter in this short story a mysterious situation, strange refractions of a ...

Comprising forth-six pages and first published in 1932, this work represents a chief component in a series of stories Robert Ervin Howard wr...

Running a mere sixteen pages, this story, first published in 1931, devotes itself to a conceptual plot that artfully shirks definitive inte...

There are some writers that are so good in their narrative style that they inadvertently trick your mind into thinking you can actually hear...