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If there was one genre that was tailor made for short fiction, it is horror! Short Story Spooky & Horrifying Collections Collections The October Country / by Ray Bradbury 20th century ghosts / Joe Hill Haunted: a novel of stories / Chuck Palahniuk. At the mountains of madness: and other weird tales / H.P. Lovecraft; Poetry and tales / Edgar Allan Poe. The inhuman condition: tales of terror / Clive Barker. The Night Shift / Stephen King Oshkosh Public Library Strange candy / Laurell K. 106 Washington Ave. Hamilton. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Strange highways / Dean Koontz. Phone: 920.236.5205 Houses without doors / Peter E-mail: [email protected] Straub. Here are some reading suggestions to help you complete the “Short Story The Doll House and tales of Collection” square on your Summer terror/ Joyce Carol Oates Reading Bingo card! Interior Darkness / Peter Straub 2017 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These collections explore a wide Runaway: stories / Alice Munro. range of diverse topics. Both funny Pulse / Julian Barnes. A few of the girls: stories / and tragic, though provoking and Bark: stories / Lorrie Moore. Maeve Binchy. anger inducing, or nostalgic and Interpreter of maladies: stories / Holidays on ice / by David heartwarming, these short fictions Jhumpa Lahiri. Sedaris. are always memorable. We live in water: stories / Jess The things they carried: a Walter. work of fiction / by Tim Recent Collections Oblivion by David Foster Wallace O'Brien. Varieties of disturbance: stories / What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Lydia Davis. Genre Collections: Sci-Fi, by Helen Oyeyemi This is how you lose her / Junot Díaz. Fantasy, Suspense Collapse of Horses by Brian How we are hungry: stories / by Evenson Dave Eggers. Get in trouble: stories / Kelly Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett The tsar of love and techno: stories / Link. Goodnight, Beautiful Women Anthony Marra. Stone mattress : nine tales / by Anna Noyes Nine inches: stories / Tom Perrotta. Margaret Atwood. Allegheny Front by Matthew Knockemstiff / Donald Ray Pollock. Trigger warning: short Neill Null St. Lucy's home for girls raised by fictions and disturbances / 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat wolves / by Karen Russell. Neil Gaiman. Girl by Mona Awad Vampires in the lemon grove: sto- The tales of Beedle the Pier Falls by Mark Haddon ries / by Karen Russell. Bard / by J.K. Rowling. Manual For Cleaning Women Welcome to the monkey house: a The lottery and other by Lucia Berlin collection of short works / by Kurt stories / Shirley Jackson. Almost Famous Women by Vonnegut The paper menagerie and Megan Mayhew Bergman Blind willow, sleeping woman/ other stories / Ken Liu. Honeydew by Edith Pearlman Haruki Murakami. Dangerous women / edited Blasphemy: [new and selected sto- by George R.R. Martin and ries] / Sherman Alexie. Gardner Dozois. Great Short Fiction A manual for cleaning women: A knight of the Seven Collections selected stories / Lucia Berlin Kingdoms / George R. R. One more thing: stories / B.J. Novak. Martin In the country: stories / Mia 13 ways of looking at a fat girl / The complete cosmicomics / Alvar. Mona Awad. Italo Calvino Will you please be quiet, What is not yours is not yours: The minority report and please? / Raymond Carver. stories / Helen Oyeyemi. other classic stories / by Tenth of December: stories / The opposite of loneliness: essays and Philip K. Dick George Saunders. stories / Marina Keegan. The thing around your neck / American housewife / Helen Ellis. .