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Edgar Allan Poe

CanLitShort FictionThe Horror Show

Montreal-based writer Cassandra Khaw combines lyricism and brevity in short works of horror and dark fantasy

October 13, 2022October 14, 2022

When Khaw is at their best, their writing has teeth – blackened, razor sharp, and ready to rend flesh.

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Brief EncountersCanLitShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 1: “The Dead Are More Visible” by Steven Heighton

May 1, 2022June 14, 2022

One of the author’s best, this story interrogates the notion of societal visibility through the prism of a middle-aged-woman working as a labourer flooding ice rinks in the middle of the night.

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Brief EncountersCanLitInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2022: Introduction

April 30, 2022June 14, 2022

If the novel is a regal lion king, the short story is a cackling hyena.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

Stalking the self: “Consequences” by Willa Cather

October 4, 2021June 14, 2022

Cather’s use of a close third-person narration lends her story an uncanny element of unease and creepiness.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

The most wild, homely narrative: “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

October 2, 2021June 14, 2022

Poe’s 1843 tale is not only one of the greatest horror stories ever written; it is also a pristine example of internal integrity in the short form.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2021, Day 28: “The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad

May 28, 2021June 14, 2022

Conrad’s story is at once a version of a doppelgänger story and an examination of repressed psychology and moral ambiguity.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

Psychology of the uncanny: “The Scar” by Ramsey Campbell

October 24, 2020June 14, 2022

This story of a man and his malevolent doppelgänger recalls Poe and includes a critique of apparent social respectability.

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International LiteratureThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

The mystery behind the death of Edgar Allan Poe

October 7, 2020June 14, 2022

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 under conspicuously mysterious circumstances. A Buzzfeed mini-documentary speculates on what might have happened to him.

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