Recommend excellent short stories

Recommend excellent short stories.

pleb with basic taste coming through

Charles Perrault - Sleeping Beauty
Voltaire - Micromegas
Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle
Edgar Allan Poe - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Hans Christian Andersen - The Snow Queen
Fritz Leiber - all the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories from Swords and Deviltry and Swords Against Death
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge

Parables of Jesus.

almost anything by: Borges, Kafka, Cortazar, Moore, Davis, Barthelme, Carter.

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

Anything by W. Somerset Maugham

Cheever's

Cathedral - Raymond Carver
At Your Service - Julio Cortazar
Orientation - Daniel Orozco
On the Rainy River - Tim O'Brian
The Angel Esmerelda - Don Dellilo (its a short story also)
For Emse - With Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger

Pushkin's. Queen of Spades and other stories. Gogol's too. Begin with The Nose.

Eileen Chang - Jasmine Tea

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft

Ligea by EA Poe

Then idk read some greek mythology.

Hawthorne's short stories are shit. That's probably the best one but none of them compare to his novels.

Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville is a good one.

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Geez. Best for last.

>He doesn't like The Minister's Black Veil

>Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville
>The Country of the Blind by HG Wells
>The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
>Boule de Suif by Maupassant
>The Country Husband by John Cheever
>The Vane Sisters by Nabokov
My nigger

Just read novels.

anything by Anton Chekhov

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

tho it's closer to a fable

Do everybody browsing this thread a favor, and name a specific, preferably *very* good, story.

>How Much Land Does a Man Need
why is there no .mobi version of this

I would prefer not to.

Borges - The Lottery in Babylon
Kafka - The Great Wall of China
Cortazar - Blow-Up
Moore - How
Davis - Break It Down
Barthelme - Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning
Carter - Master

>Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones
>the story about the kids on Venus

For Cheever more than a few come to mind, but here's two to start
The Swimmer (of course)
The Enormous Radio