Originally published in 1886 and reprinted with an introduction by fiction fan Kirsty Logan, these deliciously dark tales have the hallmarks of classic ghost stories. Each of the nine anonymous tales ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers. Despite ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Oxford University Press will publish Reading, the 600th title in its Very Short Introductions (VSI) series, next month. Launched in 1995 to fill a perceived gap for a general introduction series for ...

Let us begin at a notional beginning. I have an image in my head of a band of Neanderthals (or some similar troupe of humanoids) hunkered round the fire at the cave-mouth as the night is drawing in.

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is nothing more appealing, particularly when time is limited, than dipping into a short story collection. And just because this ...

Cocktail is a short story collection by Lisa Alward. (Biblioasis, Maria Cardoso Grant) Cocktail is a short story collection that explores some of life's watershed moments and the tiny horrors of ...

Colwill Brown has won the twentieth anniversary BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) for ‘You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle’, a ‘tense’ and ‘increasingly heartbreaking’ ...