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In addition to his many novels, Stephen King has churned out a large amount of scary short stories. We ranked 10 of the best.

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

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You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short story follows the ...

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This week’s Stylist Short Story is Seasoning by Jo Gatford; it explores childhood, family dynamics and the comfort of food, set around the sometimes fraught, sometimes joyful environment of a ...

This week’s Stylist Short Story is Wildfire by Rosie Storey, a compelling tale of wellness culture colliding with reality for one woman on a remote yoga retreat. On the first day, they sat in a ...

True confession: I read more fiction than nonfiction ... Also called creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction describes a true story about real people and events that reads like a novel.