Okay. You've inspired me. I likewise have collected collections of short stories unread. Amazing in that, on a fishing trip with my dad at 12, I read one story from Glenway Westcott's "Goodbye, Wisconsin" and then devoured the rest. It was the first adult book on my list.
Most of Sherlock Holmes is short stories, and nearly all of Ray Bradbury. Great stuff. I've read all of Hemingway's plotless short stories and loved them. Science fiction is full of short gems, like "The Marching Morons." I love Robert E. Howard's Conan short stories and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. Yep, there's probably rich ore to mine.
I forgot about Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler. Lots of good short stories there too. And I'm sure I'm missing stuff in "literary" fiction, thus the Singer and the Cheever.
Okay. You've inspired me. I likewise have collected collections of short stories unread. Amazing in that, on a fishing trip with my dad at 12, I read one story from Glenway Westcott's "Goodbye, Wisconsin" and then devoured the rest. It was the first adult book on my list.
Most of Sherlock Holmes is short stories, and nearly all of Ray Bradbury. Great stuff. I've read all of Hemingway's plotless short stories and loved them. Science fiction is full of short gems, like "The Marching Morons." I love Robert E. Howard's Conan short stories and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. Yep, there's probably rich ore to mine.
I forgot about Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler. Lots of good short stories there too. And I'm sure I'm missing stuff in "literary" fiction, thus the Singer and the Cheever.