Favorite short horror story...
 

I really love short stories.Which horror story can you recommend?I really love all of Edgar Allan Poes stories...The Black Cat being my fave.I also like The Human Chair,kinda creepy.Let me know what you think.....

I like the Deiver mirror by Stephen king,it's pretty good.

Though they're a little sci-fi too, I really like James Tiptree Jr.'s The Screwfly Solution and Connie Willis' All My Darling Daughters as examples of subtle, harrowing horror short stories.

Sam

I love short horror stories. Reading through two Lovecraft collections and From the Borderlands right now. Just read "The Food Processor", it's a must read.

Not really horror, but most anything by Neil Gaiman. "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" is one of the best works of fiction that Ive ever read.

Oh, here we go... Some of these verge on SF, but as I've said in the past, the line between SF and horror is often thinner than you might think.

"Dr. Locrian's Asylum" by Thomas Ligotti
"White" by Tim Lebbon
"Details" by China Mieville
"Andy Warhol's Dracula" by Kim Newman
"Flies" by Robert Silverberg
"The Pattern" by Ramsey Campbell
"Riding the White Bull" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Death of Doctor Island" by Gene Wolfe
"The Father-Thing" by Phillip K. Dick

get the short story collection the shadow at the bottom of the world by thomas ligotti

Which of his short story collections is that in?

No, my friend, you need The Nightmare Factory. Basically, it's all of Ligotti's collections (with the exception of My Work is Not Yet Done and In a Foreign Land, In a Foreign Town) in one omnibus collection. It goes for $60+ US on amazon, but it's quite worth it.

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