Originally published in 1886 and reprinted with an introduction by fiction fan Kirsty Logan, these deliciously dark tales have the hallmarks of classic ghost stories. Each of the nine anonymous tales ...

I’m at a bit of a loss over how to write about Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif.” The only short story ever written by the late Nobel laureate, who would have turned 91 this week, “Recitatif” was originally ...

Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

The delicate art of the short story is practiced in every literary genre, but it’s perhaps never more effective than when it’s deployed for horror. Yes, horror novels can be vast, 100,000-word ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers. Despite ...

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