Who is the greatest short story writer of all time?

Who is the greatest short story writer of all time?

Johnny Hotcakes

Cortázar.

Seconding this, wanna know good references in short stories

And while I do love Poe, he has some real shit pieces and his great works don't compensate for it, so ain't no fucking way he's the best at it

George Louie Burgess

some of Poe's stories are just weird ramblings he seemed to write when he was drunk

Nabokov, Chekhov, Hemingway wrote great short stories (better than his novels), Raymond Carver, Joyce, Roald Dahl was actually very good at short stories

Not only the painful self-inserts the ethereal women stories where, ( Berenice, Ligeia and Eleonora, even tho its mostly on Eleonora ) but The Mystery of Marie Roget

Holy hell, it looked like he was just copying from some crime file and not actually writing, it was so fucking shitty

yes, I thought only the fist Dupin story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, was good. The sequels were dull

Edgar Allen Poe was the greatest writer of all time