Fiction - Short Stories

1915. Akutagawa Ryunosuke is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story. This was his first published story. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie Rashōmon, which was based on Akutagawa's 1921 short story, In a Grove.

2000. Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.

Title story of a collection published in 1974

Title story of a collection, 1978; winner, Canadian Governor General's Award

Won the Hawthornden Prize in 1959

Set during the American Civil War

1886

(1909); one of the first descriptions of robots in English literature

At least three films made from this story

One of the most extensively anthologized stories of the last quarter century. Hempel won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was also named as one of the The New York Times' Ten Best Books of the year. In 2008 she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2009 she won the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction with Alistair McLeod.

2000

1883

1902

1898

1899

1891

1894

1894

Story Collection. National Book Award, 1959

Published in 1914, two years after his death, in a collection entitled Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

In Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

In a collection called, Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party, (1908)

In a collection called, Under the Sunset, 1881

1836-1902

In "South of No North"

In "South of No North", 1973

In "South of No North"

In "South of No North"

1812-1870

1857

1837

Adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock

First published in 1909

From a collection of early stories, published 1916

1885-1930

In "Forty Stories"

In "Forty Stories"

In "Forty Stories"

In "Forty Stories"

From "Great Days"

"Great Days"

1893-1967

1955. It comprises three short stories which were initially intended to be the opening chapters of a novel, and 20 short stories produced early in Thomas' career. Published posthumously.

New York Times Best Illustrated Books Award

1940. Short story collection

1899-1985

1841. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction.

1839

1842

1841. As the first true detective in fiction, the Dupin character established many literary devices which would be used in future fictional detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

1842

1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories.

A collection of unusual, short, free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town.

1862-1937

First published in 1945

2001; basis of the TV series 'Justified' about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens

1948

1930-2002

From Millegenille, Georgia, she died young from lupus, wrote stories of the Southern gothic tradition.

1931

One of several "Basil and Josephine" stories

1920

1930

1922

1896-1940

A "Josephine" story

B. 1928

From Strange Pilgrims

From Big Mama's Funeral

From The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

A love story

1938

1940

1904-1991

1850-1893

1811-1896

1896

1908

1843-1916

1819-1891

1866-1946

1799-1850

Pen name of Karen von Blixen-Finecke

1876-1916

In the collection, Dubliners, (1914)

In Dubliners

In Dubliners

1883-1941

One in the collection, Tales of the South Pacific

1939

1939

In The King's Indian

Collected in The King's Indian

In The King's Indian

Collected in The King's Indian

2000

1941

1941

1896

Yossarian Lives

Made from an excluded chapter of Catch-22

Published 1984

1981

In The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, 1970

1898

1894

1930

1930

1922

2005 Hugo and Nebula Award

Collected in Welcome to the Monkey House

Title is reference to a speech in Macbeth

Native American, b. 1948

Set in the early weeks of the Irish Civil War

1937; revised, 1956

From the collection, "Moral Disorder", 2006

From "Moral Disorder"

From the collection by the same name

Samuel Longhorn Clemens, 1835-1910

1900

Translation by Paul Bowles

1804-1864

1831

The basis for an opera of the same name

William Sydney Porter

1906

1862-1910

In which kidnappers pay the father for the return of an obnoxious boy

From the title collection, Stories, 1940-1949

First published in Fantastic Universe, 1956

First published, 1952

In "We'll Always Have Paris"

From "We'll Always Have Paris"

1981

1885-1933

1916-1990

First published in Playboy, 1987

From the collection, Kiss Kiss (1959)

From the collection, Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)

1954

From the collection, Someone Like You (1953

1850-1894

First published, 1887

1865-1936

First published in The Day's Work, 1898

From a collection entitled, Piranha to Scurfy

From the collection, "The Fallen Curtain"

From "Piranha to Scurfy"

From the collection by the same name

Title story in a collection of stories featuring Inspector Wexford

From 'Piranha to Scurfy"

Part of the novel Winesburg, Ohio

Native American writer

1999, in a collection of stories by the same name

1897

1937

1834

1802-1885

1882-1941

First published in 1956

1946

A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker

1929

1873-1947

1883-1963

1902, grants three wishes