This short story boasts an ending no less stunning and horrifying than those of some of the finest short stories ever written, such as Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and W.W. Jacobs’s ...

The Mystery Short Story. Shedunnit. A consideration of crime fiction’s more compact incarnation. ... — How to Write a Mystery: a Handbook from Mystery Writers of America, ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Mystery Writers of America announced its nominations for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, ... paperback original, fact crime, critical/biographical, best short story, ...

In our own time, Tom Mead has been widely acclaimed for his three novels featuring the magician detective Joseph Spector. But Mead has also been writing short stories, 11 of which make up another ...

Adapted from a short story told in reverse, the film veers between speculative mystery and coming-of-age drama, but only works up to a point. Like King’s story — one of four novellas collected ...