This topic includes collections of short stories, single short stories, and novellas.
- Alzayat, Dima, Alligator & Other Stories
- Atkinson, Kate, Not the End of the World
- Atwood, Margaret, Stone Mattress
- Baker, Dorothy, Young Man with a Horn
- Barba, Andres, Such Small Hands
- Bates, H. E., The Woman Who Had Imagination
- Bernstein, Sarah, Study for Obedience
- Beukes, Lauren, Slipping
- Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles
- Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
- Cather, Willa, Obscure Destinies
- Christie, Agatha, Midwinter Murder, The Tuesday Club Murders
- Cline, Emma, Daddy: Stories
- Cox, Michael and R.A. Gilbert, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
- Davies, Carys, Clear
- Dickens, Charles, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Gambler
- Dutton, Danielle, Margaret the First
- Edwards, Martin (ed.), The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories, Deep Waters, The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime, Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries, Murder at the Manor, Silent Nights
- Egan, Jennifer, The Candy House, A Visit from the Goon Squad (second review)
- Ellis, Helen, American Housewife: Stories
- Faye, Lyndsay, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
- Galgut, Damon, In a Strange Room
- Gardam, Jane, The Sidmouth Letters
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
- Gatward, Uschi, English Magic
- Habila, Helon, Travelers
- Hall, Sarah, Sudden Traveler
- Heyer, Georgette, Snowdrift and Other Stories
- Hodgson, W. H., The Casebook of Carnaki the Ghost Finder
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes
- Jackson, Shirley, Let Me Tell You
- James, P.D., The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
- Johnson, Craig, Spirit of Steamboat
- Katz, Michael R. (ed.), The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
- Kaye-Smith, Sheila, Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories
- Keegan, Claire, Antarctica, Small Things Like These, So Late in the Day, Walk the Blue Fields
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Unaccustomed Earth
- Lee, Andrea, Red Island House
- Leonard, Elmore, Raylan
- Lindsay, Joan, Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Mackenzie, Victoria, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
- MacLeod, Alistair, Island
- McCracken, Elizabeth, Thunderstruck and Other Stories
- McCullers, Carson, Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
- Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
- Manning, Olivia, School for Love
- Mantel, Hilary, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- Mitford, Nancy, Highland Fling
- Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings, The View from Castle Rock
- Nesbit, E., The House of Silence: Ghost Stories 1887-1920
- Niffenegger, Audrey (ed.), Ghostly
- Olesha, Yuri, Envy
- Oliphant, Margaret, The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow, Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
- Otsuka, Julie, The Buddha in the Attic
- Panter-Downes, Molly, Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
- Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
- Piatote, Beth, The Beadworkers
- Pontoppidan, Henrik, The White Bear
- Pym, Barbara, The Sweet Dove Died
- Raybourn, Deanna, Twelfth Night
- Ridgway, Keith, A Shock
- Robison, Mary, Why Did I Ever
- Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
- Salinger, J. D., Three Early Stories
- Schweblin, Samanta, Fever Dream
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, Weir of Hermiston. Some Unfinished Stories
- Strout, Elizabeth, Olive, Again, Olive Kitteridge
- Szalay, David, All That Man Is
- Thomas, Simon (curator), Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season, Stories for Winter and Nights by the Fire
- Thompson-Spires, Nafissa, Heads of the Colored People
- Toíbín, Colm, The Empty Family
- Tolstoy, Leo (Lev Nikolaevich), Lev Lvovich, and Sofiya, The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
- Various authors, The Winter Spirits
- Walker, Tom, Signed Confessions
- Williams, Eley, Attrib. and Other Stories
- Wood, Benjamin, Seascraper
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