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So who is the best short story writer in the history of literature? Not novelist, playwright, or poet. Only count their short stories.

>> No.1831106

Edgar Allan Poe.

>> No.1831109

>>1831099

In an effort to not fanboy I shall state that Salinger and Fitzgerald write wonderful short stories. Poe definitely ranks up there though.

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>> No.1831114

Nabukov & Henry James

>> No.1831118

Franz Kafka

>> No.1831120

lots of American writers in this list, so I'll add another.

Washington Irving

just one of his short stories persuaded just about everyone in your high school and your parents into believing that everyone thought the earth was flat prior to Christopher Columbus's expedition in 1492.

>> No.1831214

Poe

>> No.1831219

ITT: Post your favourite short stories for favourite authors

>> No.1831222

I've always been a fan of Raymond Carver myself.

>> No.1831229

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

>> No.1831233

>>1831229

This.

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>>1831110
This. Flannery was great.

>> No.1831256

Harlan Ellison

>> No.1831327

Borges or Kafka.

>> No.1831339

Salinger

if you don't believe me, read some of his stuff from right after WWII

>> No.1831359

>>1831114

Henry James so much. So much.

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1831361

Pretty sure I'm the official correct answer, you guys.

>> No.1831363

Hemingway is good at short stories.

>> No.1831369

>>1831359
What are his best short works?

>> No.1831371

Ambrose Bierce is good.

>> No.1831372

Certainly not really the greatest, but O. Henry was excellent. Sort of like the M. Night Shamalamyn(?) of his day, except he wasn't a pretentious asshole.

>> No.1831389

What about novellas? Melville has some awesome novellas.

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1831433

the dude in picture. His work is divine

>> No.1831443

>>1831433
who is this? wilde?

>> No.1831444

Poe.

>> No.1831456

Does anyone like Stephen King's short stories? He doesn't give himself the opportunity to crap on at length like he usually does, and he has come out with some really amazing stuff. Really romanticist/gothic work as well.

>> No.1831458

>>1831443
Vladimir Nabokov. And he is much more than Lolita.....though hi isn't known to be :)

>> No.1831455

Who wrote "By the Waters of Babylon?" That shit was so cash.

>> No.1831462

>>1831458
Yeah, everything he writes is poetry, and while Lolita is probably the best example, everything he has written reads like silk.

>> No.1831495

>>1831456
Please, keep Stephen King out of this.

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>>1831495
Fine.

>> No.1831551

The best short story writer in the history of literature is pulp fiction writers

>> No.1831560

updike or d-barth

>> No.1831593

Maupassant bitches

>> No.1831612

>>1831593
This. The Necklace was pretty boss.

>> No.1831636

why is the picture 'Faulkner.jpg" with a picture of Mark Twain?

>> No.1831642

>>1831636
That's actually Biz

>> No.1831996

>>1831369

Try "The Beast in the Jungle".

>> No.1832004

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke is probably my favorite, just like his style. Though I do love Salinger's short stories as well.

>> No.1832006

Cortázar

>> No.1832040

Franz Kafka
Hemingway did his best stuff in short story form.
Raymond Carver.
Harlan Ellison.

>> No.1832072

Vote 2 for Borges
Vote 3 for Hemingway

>> No.1832074

Another vote for Akutagawa, with an honorable mention for Kenji Miyazawa.

>> No.1832102

>>1831369
Some of his best novellas:

Daisy Miller
The Aspern Papers
The Altar of the Dead

>> No.1832107

Nabakov

>> No.1832117

>>1831462
This, obviously

>> No.1832120

>>1832107
Nabokov*

But transliteration, so whatever

>> No.1832155

See Raymond Carver dats my mothafuckin nigga.

Although he's partly responsible for that faggot Murakami, which kinda brings him down a notch.

>> No.1832183

Poe and Fitzgerald are two of my favorites.

But I would say Poe is the King.