In addition to his bestselling novels, Stephen King is also a prolific short story writer. Here are 20 of his best.

She watched, detached, the stumbling figures below; their voices were oddly muted, perhaps due to the screeching music she’d ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like ...

On a cool evening in October, UC Berkeley freshmen Lizzy and Nilou found themselves on the south side of campus thirty ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

A collection has been launched, for charity, of gripping crime fiction short stories by up-and-coming crime authors who have ...

Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction writer. His debut novel "The Coast Road" was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards ...

The Glencairn Glass—a whisky glass made by Scottish company Glencairn Crystal—has launched a collection of crime-fiction ...

When Ashley Shelby of St. Paul began working on her short story collection back in 2016, she thought she was writing weird ...

Realism rejects a dreamy or idyllic view of the world and it believes in representing inner world of literary characters with ...

Manitoba writer Zilla Jones' debut novel The World So Wide is coming out in April 2025. The book tells the story of Felicity Alexander, a mixed-race opera star, who spends her life chasing love and ...

Every month our 50 Word Fiction writing competition invites you to write a short story on a theme in just 50 words.