Brief Encounters – Page 21 – That Shakespearean Rag

Short stories offer a different kind of pleasure from other forms of literature, a pleasure not curtailed by a story's relatively small size.

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Stephen King's short story "I Am the Doorway" rides the line between science fiction and horror.

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Editor Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen celebrate five years of producing the Short Story Advent Calendar.

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1884 chiller “The Body-Snatcher” is a tale of supernatural horror with moral overtones.

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Muriel Spark’s pitiless treatment of her characters is on full display in the merciless irony of “A Member of the Family.”

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