The post Treat your mind: The 13 best short stories ever written appeared first on The Manual. Many authors say that penning a great short story is harder than writing an entire novel.

Three contributing critics pick their best fiction of the year, including work by Victor LaValle, Ed Park, Lauren Groff, Yiyun Li and Tania James. Best novels of 2023 (and best short story ...

The writer’s signature style of ending—a final, thrilling note—has the touch of magic that distinguishes the form at its best. Louis Menand on “O. Henry: 101 Stories,” collected by the ...

Since I got the best of King's books out of the way, the next logical step was to go ahead and rank the 10 best Stephen King short stories. However, this proved to be a far more daunting task.

The book has stories of classic short-story writers—Rabindranath Tagore, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay and Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and post-Independence generation of authors such as Nabarun ...

50 Best Short Horror Stories 1. “The Infamous Bengal Ming" by Rajesh Parameswaran "Awwww, a story about a tiger who falls in love with the tiger keeper! How sweet!" is not what you will be ...

Comment Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time. We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to ...

Review of The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories: Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj.