A Writer's Tale

My 28 Favorite Short Stories/Novellas

1. “The Big Two-Hearted River” - Ernest Hemingway

2. “The Black Cat” - Edgar Allan Poe

3. “The Body” - Stephen King

4. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Ernest Hemingway

5. “The Color Out of Space” - H.P. Lovecraft

6. “The Deep End” - Robert R. McCammon

7. “The Dunwich Horror” - H.P. Lovecraft

8. “The Fall of the House of Usher” - Edgar Allan Poe

9. “Iverson’s Pits” - Dan Simmons

10. “Lamb to the Slaughter” - Roald Dahl

11. “The Man from the South” - Roald Dahl

12. “The Mist” - Stephen King

13. “The Monkey’s Paw” - W.W. Jacobs

14. “Night They Missed the Horror Show” - Joe Lansdale

15. “One of the Missing” - Ambrose Bierce

16. “The Open Window” - Saki

17. “The Raft” - Stephen King

18. “Skin” - Roald Dahl

19. “The Squaw” - Bram Stoker

20. “The Tell-Tale Heart” - Edgar Allan Poe

21. “Ten Indians” - Ernest Hemingway

22. “To Build a Fire” - Jack London

23. “Traps” - F. Paul Wilson

24. “The Ugly File” - Ed Gorman

25. “Up in Michigan” - Ernest Hemingway

26. “The Voice in the Night” - William Hope Hodgson

27. “The Wendigo” - Algernon Blackwood

28. “The Willows” - Algernon Blackwood