Hi, all.
I’m a writer looking for some inspiration and I’m wanting to write a fantasy horror short story as a practice project, but I’m needing some specifically short story inspiration, as I’ve never read one. I found a set of short stories by Naomi Novik as well as a collection called “green hunger” by a variety of writers and a collection of works by Edgar Allen Poe. Is this a good starting point?
by J0rdyn_the_wr1ter
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Not sure if you’re only looking for that genre. If not, Ted Chiang has two really great sci fi books with short stories! One is Stories of Your Life and Others https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380 (the movie Arrival was based on the short story of the same name in the book) and the other is Exhalation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41160292
Currently reading Never Whistle at Night (indigenous folklore stories) by Shane Hawk, and liking it so far! Also, I have Goth by Otsuichi next on my list. Also looking for some good fall/october horror and dark fiction
White nights by Fyodor dostevesky