Recommend good short stories collections

good lord this michigan rube's body is lookin' fine. got the glowing crazy eyes though. marine mattress/10.

And Italio Calvino has also written many strange short stories.

Oblivion-DFW

if that girl told me to kill myself i'd do it

Hey its me from the pic. Kill yourself.

kek I know the underlying feel

breece d'j pancake
richard yates

Clarice Lispector (!)
Herman Melville
Italo Calvino
Eduardo Galeano (not fiction, but he writes nonfiction in a literary way)

He has several other short stories also.

lel

richard ford

Maupassant's "Contes du jour et de la nuit". They're top notch. Also, Chekhov's.

Breece DJ Pancake
Pinckney Bennedict
Harold Brodkey
Barry Hannah
Irwin Shaw
Joyce Carol Oates

it's the perfect time of year for the collected ghost stories of MR James and oh god i want to cum on her feet

Stories of Anton Chekhov

Perchance to Dream by Beaumont

Oh Jesus who is that semen demon

Why do you torment me with these jezebels?

The Untilled Field - George Moore (Dubliners' rural cousin)
Saki's short stories
Roald Dahl's short stories (unironically)
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: Cruel Tales

Not a collection, but I really enjoyed Dosto's story, "A Novel in Nine Letters."
ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/novel-in-nine-letters/

I'll offer another vote for Chekhov and Turgenev.

O. Henry wrote terrific short stories as well. My favorites are While the Auto Waits, The Cop and the Anthem, and The Leaf.

Tobias Wolff, especially Bullet in the Brain, one of my favorites works I've read in the last few years.

And not a collection, but Bradbury's The Pedestrian is top-notch and I actually didn't even like Fahrenheit 451 which grew out of this story.

Jesus' son
winesburg, Ohio

Raymond Carver for Christ's sake

Alice Munroe
Maupassant
Calvino
John Cheever
John Updike

Barbara Gowdy

Elizabeth Taylor

boo hoo lower middle class people drinking boo hoo

>Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: Cruel Tales
Anyone got an epub of that please, in English? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

Robert Walser
Bruno Schulz
Marcel Schwob
Octave Mirbeau
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Mark Twain
Henry James
Silvina Ocampo
Juan Rulfo
But really, just read the top three.
Also, seconding these:

Nobody recommending Wodehouse?

Her purse actually looks like her own tattooed arm laying on the table.

>Silvina Ocampo

I've been reading Thus Were Their Faces and the stories leave me feeling sad. Her writing style is very... cold. It's interesting but that feeling makes me not want to go back

She's ethereal and aloof, but sometimes funny too, in a grim way. She was clearly influenced by Borges and Bioy and perhaps Cortazar and the French surrealists, and sometimes she is just as good as the above, though many might disagree. She deserves to be better known, for sure.

just wanted to thank you folks for your neat recommendations, looks like i have enough to read for the next couple months at least

Ligotti. Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco. You might consider starting with Teatro.