Short story anthologies

Beschrijving
Books of short stories written by various authors that you enjoyed reading & would recommend. (I've chosen ones with stories in conventional form with stories that might, hopefully, have a broad appeal.)
1
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
door Alberto Manguel
500 leden
8 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
spiphany, bluepiano
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bluepiano: A pleasingly fat book.
2
Life and Limb: Selected Tales of Peril, Predicament, and Dire Distress
door Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
7 leden
1 bespreking
Member
bluepiano
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bluepiano: Subtitle says it all.
3
The Custom-House of Desire: A Half Century of Surrealist Stories
door J. H. Matthews
46 leden
1 bespreking
4
Member
bluepiano
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bluepiano: The surrealism lies more in the off-beat content than in the way in which the stories are written.
4
Vertel mij
door Nadine Gordimer
346 leden
2 besprekingen
3.2
Member
spiphany
5
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories
door Daniel Halpern
339 leden
3 besprekingen
3.9
Member
spiphany
6
Short Shorts
door Irving Howe
257 leden
4 besprekingen
4.1
Member
spiphany
8
Read Russia!: An Anthology of New Voices
door Elena Shubina
14 leden
Member
spiphany
9
Man in the Fictional Mode, Book 4
door Hannah Haupt
4 leden
½ 4.5
Member
bluepiano
Verklaringen
bluepiano: Possibly books in this series were used in US high school classes back in the day? I came across two of them when I was young and they made me very eager to read more by some of the authors.
10
Best European Fiction 2012
door Aleksandar Hemon
73 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
bluepiano
Verklaringen
bluepiano: I've read several in this series and this was my favourite.
11
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease
door Sarah Eyre
52 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.3
Member
bluepiano
Verklaringen
bluepiano: Stories inspired by Freud's thoughts on the uncanny. It won an award which isn't surprising because it's a good one and a couple at least of the stories are memorable.
12
THE BELGIAN SCHOOL OF THE BIZARRE: An Anthology of Short Stories
door Kim Connell
22 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.5
Member
bluepiano
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bluepiano: Good collection of little-known stories that is however not a pipe.
13
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature
door Roger Goodman
297 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.6
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: Most of the writers are familiar but many of the stories aren't. Stories are very short ones.
14
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
door Mike Ashley
238 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Verklaringen
bluepiano: Undemanding but on the whole great fun.
16
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories
door Kate Figes
114 leden
½ 3.4
17
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories
door Chris Brazier
98 leden
3.9
18
A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents
door Lynda Prescott
96 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.6
19
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
door Dohra Ahmad
75 leden
1 bespreking
3.8