Which story in 'Come Along With Me', a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson, has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature"?
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Come Along With Me Come Along With Me is a posthumous collection of the works of American writer Shirley Jackson. It contains sixteen short stories, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery", three essays delivered by Jackson, and the incomplete novel of the same name on which Jackson was working at the time of her death.
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The Lottery "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written just months before its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of "The New Yorker". The story describes a fictional small town which observes — as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America — an annual ritual known as "the lottery". It has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015. This is King's sixth collection of short stories and his tenth collection overall. One of the stories, "Obits", won the 2016 Edgar Award for best short story, and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best collection. The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "Cookie Jar", which was published in 2016 in "VQR".
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Little Things (short story) "Little Things" is a short story by American writer Raymond Carver. It was originally title "Mine", but was first published in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" under the title "Popular Mechanics." It was then republished with the title "Little Things" in Carver's 1988 collection "Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories".
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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the January 29, 2001 issue of "The New Yorker" magazine. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection "Everything's Eventual".
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Unaccompanied Sonata "Unaccompanied Sonata" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, first published in the March, 1979 issue of "Omni" magazine. It appears in his short story collections "Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories" and "Maps in a Mirror". It was nominated in 1979 for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story and in 1980 for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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The Crawling Chaos "The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson (first published April 1921 in the "United Cooperative". As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft). Lovecraft wrote the entire text , but Jackson is also credited since the story was based on a dream she experienced.
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The Man Who Came Early "The Man Who Came Early" is a science fiction short story by Danish-American author Poul Anderson. Similar in some respects to Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", the story is in fact its antithesis; Anderson sharply differs from Twain in his treatment of the "primitive" society in which the time traveller finds himself, and his assessment of a modern person's chances of survival in such a society.
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Mars Is Heaven! "Mars Is Heaven!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in 1948 in "Planet Stories". "Mars Is Heaven!" was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards. As such, it was published in "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929–1964". It also appears as the sixth chapter of "The Martian Chronicles", retitled "The Third Expedition".
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Paste (story) "Paste" is a 5,800-word short story by Henry James first published in "Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly" in December, 1899. James included the story in his collection, "The Soft Side", published by Macmillan the following year. James conceived the story as a clever reversal of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace".
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Beyond the Wall (short story) "Beyond the Wall" is a ghost story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was published by "Cosmopolitan" in December 1907.
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The Curse of the Monolith "The Curse of the Monolith" is a short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan of Cimmeria created by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the magazine "Worlds of Fantasy" in 1968 as "Conan and the Cenotaph".
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Stone Mattress Stone Mattress is a short fiction collection by Margaret Atwood, published in 2014. Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism.
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The Princess and the Tin Box "The Princess and the Tin Box" is a short story by James Thurber in the form of a modern fable. It was first published in the September 29, 1945 edition of "The New Yorker" magazine and republished in 1948 in Thurber's "The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures". The story is widely used as a text in schools for teaching both writing skills and reading comprehension.
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Berenice (short story) "Berenice" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the "Southern Literary Messenger" in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense focus during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until the only part of her remaining healthy is her teeth, which become the object of Egaeus' obsession. Berenice is buried, and Egaeus continues to contemplate her teeth. One day Egaeus wakes up from a period of focus with an uneasy feeling, and the sound of screams in his ears. A servant startles him by telling him Berenice's grave has been disturbed, and she is still alive; but beside Egaeus is a shovel, a poem about "visiting the grave of my beloved" and a box containing 32 blood-stained teeth.
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Patchwork Girl (hypertext) Patchwork Girl is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in Storyspace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's "afternoon, a story" as an important work of hypertext fiction.
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Autopsy Room Four "Autopsy Room Four" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was first published in King's limited-edition collection "Six Stories" in 1997 and appeared in the anthology "Robert Bloch's Psychos" later the same year. In 2002, it was collected in King's collection "Everything's Eventual". It was adapted into a short film in 2003. It was also part of TNT's "" series in the summer of 2006.
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The Other Boat The Other Boat is a short story by E. M. Forster, written in 1957–1958 and published posthumously in "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)" in 1972.
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Sometimes They Come Back "Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of "Cavalier" and later collected in King's 1978 collection "Night Shift".
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The Club-Footed Grocer "The Clubfooted Grocer" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in "The Strand Magazine". It is a nineteenth-century short story about a man who goes to help his wealthy uncle, once a grocer and trader of jewelry and expensive artifacts. The narrator doesn’t know why he is called to help his uncle until he arrives and finds that his uncle has a death threat from someone who wants something the uncle possesses.
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Pilgrims (short story collection) Pilgrims is a collection of twelve short stories by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. It was named a New York Times Notable Book, won a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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Stationary Bike "Stationary Bike" is a short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the fifth edition of "From the Borderlands" in 2003. In 2008, it was published in King's collection "Just After Sunset".