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unusual facts about short stories



A Tranquil Star

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi is a 2007 anthology of short stories by the Italian writer Primo Levi.

Badger Books

One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its outputs was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms): John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories).

Charles E. May

Charles E. May has published a number of scholarly books on short stories: Short Stories Theories, The Modern European Short Story, Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction, Fiction's Many Worlds, and The New Short Story Theories - and over 200 articles to such journals as Studies in Short Fiction, Style, and The Minnesota Review.

Dark Avenues

Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys, Russian: «Тёмные аллеи», Tyomnyye allei) is a collection of short stories by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937–1944, mostly in Grasse, France, first 11 novellas of which were published in New York, United States, in 1943.

Deadline for Love and Other Stories

Deadline for Love and Other Stories is a collection of 12 short stories written by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim.

Don Carpenter

He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood.

Entre Deux Guerres

Entre Deux Guerres is a chronological grouping for a collection of short stories within Manhattan Monologues by the author Louis Auchincloss.

Ernest Glanville

Ernest Glanville (born 5 May 1855 in Wynberg, South Africa—died 6 September 1925 in Rondebosch, South Africa) was a South African author, known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa.

Execution of Mayor Yin

The Execution of Mayor Yin is a 1978 collection of short stories by the Taiwanese writer Chen Ruoxi, based on experiences in Mainland China during the 1960s and 1970s.

Flappers and Philosophers

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920.

Giants Unleashed

Giants Unleashed is an anthology of science fiction short stories compiled and edited, by Groff Conklin, and published simultaneously in the United States and Canada in 1965 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc..

Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and many novels based on the character.

Jacinta Escudos

Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as La Nación (Costa Rica), La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador), and El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua).

Jammy Smears

It was the last of the three albums he released on Virgin Records, and as with the previous two he is joined by Phyllis King, who reads six of her own poems and short stories.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Janwillem van de Wetering was particularly noted for his detective fiction, his most popular creations being Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories.

They are police detectives in the Murder Brigade of the Amsterdam Municipal Police, and are featured in more than a dozen detective novels and several short stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

John D. Fitzgerald

The novels are structured like a collection of short stories, in which Tom either swindles people and then rationalizes it by claiming it was to teach them a lesson, or solves an important problem for the community.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu.

Josh Pahigian

Pahigian has also written short stories that have been published in American literary journals such as Passages North, the Hawaii Review, and Ararat, and has been translated in several Armenian language periodicals and anthologies.

Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore

Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of seventeen short stories by Singapore author Catherine Lim.

Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan (born 1960) in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift.

New Puritans

The New Puritans was a literary movement ascribed to the contributors to a 2000 anthology of short stories entitled All Hail the New Puritans, edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne.

One Thousand and One Second Stories

One Thousand and One Second Stories is a collection of seventy short stories written by Inagaki Taruho.

Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer (born 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and Esquire UK.

Ruth Pine Furniss

Ruth Pine Furniss (18931957), was an American writer who published several short stories and novels.

Sargasso Sea

The Sargasso Sea features in classic fantasy stories by William Hope Hodgson, such as his novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907), Victor Appleton's Don Sturdy novel, Don Sturdy in the Port of Lost Ships: Or, Adrift in the Sargasso Sea, and several related short stories.

Short Cuts

Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver.

Small Avalanches and Other Stories

Small Avalanches and Other Stories is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.

Spiro Zavos

In 1978 he was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and spent a year in Menton, France writing a collection of autobiographical short stories, which he later published under the title Faith of Our Fathers.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Adventures of Samurai Cat

The Adventures of Samurai Cat is a collection of linked humorous fantasy short stories by Mark E. Rogers.

The Heart of Princess Osra

This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau.

The Literary Review

In addition to the publication of short stories, poems, and essays, The Literary Review prides itself on publishing English translations of contemporary fiction from various countries around the world, often dedicating an entire issue to a single language (e.g. Japanese translations).

The Quest for Cush

The novel is a collection of four short stories ("In Mwenni", "In Bana-Gui", "On the Bahari Mashiriki", and "In Kush") which were originally published in Dark Fantasy, a fanzine published by Canadian comic book artist Gene Day during the 1970s.

The World Is the Home of Love and Death

The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories is a collection of short stories written by Harold Brodkey and first published posthumously in 1997.

Things That Fall from the Sky

Things That Fall from the Sky is a collection of eleven short stories by American author Kevin Brockmeier.

Tom Hungerford

A. G. Hungerford, was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel The Ridge and the River, and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Great Depression.

Tony Medina

Medina was also an accomplished poet and writer of short stories, and his poetry has been published in various literary anthologies.

Uncle Tom's Children

Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of short stories by African American author Richard Wright, also the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and The Outsider.

Velvet Donkey

Cutler is joined on the record by Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks, and by Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories and is also credited with designing the album cover.

Ward Moore

Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.

William Clark Falkner

Whether or not young William actually said this, the elder Falkner served as the model for the character of Colonel John Sartoris, who appeared in the novels Sartoris (1929) (reissued in an expanded edition as Flags in the Dust (1973)) and The Unvanquished (1938) as well as a number of short stories.

Zalpa Bersanova

Bersanova, who has written several short stories, as well as a novel based on autobiographical experiences called The Road Home, was one of 35 Russian women nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.


see also

16th and Mission Thursday Night

The 16th & Mission Review is a quarterly literary anthology published by Seven7h Tangent Press which has featured poems and short stories by such notable and award-winning writers as Neeli Cherkovski, Ruth Weiss, and Sharon Doubiago.

29th Street Rep

The 29th Street Rep's 2000 production of its adaptation of nine short stories from Charles Bukowski's South of No North (Tales of the Buried Life) was a big hit, running over 100 performances.

Alan Le May

He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind (1942; with John Wayne and Paulette Goddard) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952; with Robert Newton), North West Mounted Police (1940; for Cecil B. DeMille), and the novel for Along Came Jones (1945; with Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of novels and short stories.

Andrea Mohr

She wrote 22 short stories, the collection with the title “Blood-red” (not yet published) Two of those short stories will be published in the forthcoming book "Tripping" by Howard Marks.

Auguste Corteau

In addition to the fourteen novels, novellas and short stories collections he has published over the years, he has also worked extensively as a translator, and has translated into Greek numerous works by masters of prose such as Nabokov, Banville, Updike, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy.

Bhog and Other Stories

Bhog and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ankur Betageri first published in 2010.

Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

Charlie Clemmow

Clemmow has recently filmed the part of Anne Simpson in the one off, half an hour TV drama "The Tractate Middoth", written and directed by Mark Gatiss - based on one of M. R. James's chilling short stories.

Christoph Peters

It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House).

CLÀR

, a collection of short stories by Duncan Gillies (Donnchadh MacGillIosa) from London via Ness on the Island of Lewis was shortlisted for the main award 2013 Book of the Year.

East of Samarinda

Fourteen of the short stories are set in Dutch East Borneo, two in British North Borneo, two in New Guinea, two in the South Seas (South China Sea, East China Sea and Southern Pacific Ocean) and one off the coast of the Unfederated Malay States.

Eduardo Berti

His translations from English into Spanish include “With Borges” (by Alberto Manguel), “The Sandglass” (Romesh Gunesekera), “American Notebooks, a selection” (Nathaniel Hawthorne), “Lady Susan” (Jane Austen), and also a couple of anthologies as “New York short stories” (Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, etc.).

Electric Pentacle

The "electric pentacle" is a fictional electronic device invented by author William Hope Hodgson and used in several of his short stories about Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.

Eric Illayapparachchi

One of his short stories was made into a television drama for the series Vinividimi Adura (Through the Darkness) on Sri Lanka's ITN network.

Eugeniusz Dębski

He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, Fenix and Portal.

Halil Gür

His short stories focus mainly on the problems of migrant experiences, particularly in the context of the Dutch gastarbeider program.

Harry Sylvester

His stories were published in popular magazines such as Collier's, Esquire and Commonweal, publishing over 150 short stories.

Heart of the World

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison

Ishq

Ashfaq Ahmed wrote many short stories and TV dramas about mysticism involving ishq.

Jimmy Lavender

Author Vincent Starrett, who penned The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, created a series of short stories featuring a gentlemanly, cultured detective named "Jimmie Lavender".

Joe and Beth Krush

--earliest i have found, not known to be their debuts--> Joe did Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns, a collection of short stories by Wilbur Schramm.

Karel Michal

In 1960 Michal started to write for literary journal Plamen ("Flame"), in 1961 he published successful collection of short stories.

Kazuo Hirotsu

In 1912, Hirotsu joined Zenzō Kasai in establishing a literary magazine, Kiseki (“Miracle”), to which he contributed short stories and translated works of foreign authors.

Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang

The film is a two-story, "Pedrong Walang Takot" and "Mariang Alimango" derived from the short stories of Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang written by Severino Reyes.

Mustafa Balel

He translated several novels and short stories of the French language (Michel Tournier, Yann Queffélec, Pascal Bruckner, Jorge Semprún, Panait Istrati, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Dragan Babic, Marlène Amar etc.)

Necati Cumalı

Toward the end of that decade, while he was doing his military service, he also started writing short stories in which the profound influence of another important Turkish writer, Sabahattin Ali, could be felt.

Off the map

A Bit Off the Map, and Other Stories, third collection of prose by English author Angus Wilson, it contained eight short stories and was published by Penguin Books in 1957

Pulp fiction

Pulp magazines, short stories presented in a magazine format, printed on cheaply made wood-pulp paper

Raja'a Alem

Her short story "One Thousand Braids and a Governess" has been translated into English and published in "Voices of Change: short stories by Saudi Arabian women writers" edited by Abubaker Bagader, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff, Deborah Akers Her birth in Mecca and her family background is highly influential to her work and outlook.

Red Hanrahan

Owen Red Hanrahan, an Irish schoolmaster/poet who figures in several poems and short stories by William Butler Yeats

Roadwork

The Mangler - It is mentioned that the ironer in the George's laundromat is nicknamed "The Mangler" because of "what would happen to you if you ever got caught in it." In one of King's short stories, The Mangler, a detective is called in to investigate a death caused by a demon-possessed ironer in similar industrial laundromat.

Robert McAlmon

Having published his book of short stories A Hasty Bunch with James Joyce's printer Maurice Darantière in Dijon in 1922, he founded the Contact Publishing Company in 1923 using his father-in-law's money.

Robin Chapman

His best known work includes Spindoe (1968), the controversial Big Breadwinner Hog (1969) and many adaptations, including M.R. James' Lost Hearts, Jane Eyre, Eyeless in Gaza and a considerable number of screenplays on Roald Dahl's short stories for Tales of the Unexpected.

Ruskin Bond

Since then he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novels, including Vagrants in The Valley, The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeons and more than 30 books for children.

Ruzha Lazarova

She has also published two short stories in French and a play, which was performed at the “Festival de la Correspondance” in Grignan.

Samonikli

The band was named after a book of short stories by writer Prežihov Voranc.

Sergio De Santis

Some of the De Santis' short stories have been published in magazines, such as Linea d’ombra and Nuovi Argomenti, and in the anthologies Decalogo, (Rizzoli) and Luna nuova (Argo).

Shen Congwen

He began publishing short stories and essays regularly in Fiction Monthly and Crescent Moon, two highly influential literary magazines of the New Culture Movement.

Shyam Selvadurai

In 2004, Selvadurai edited a collection of short stories: Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, which includes works by Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, and Hanif Kureishi, among others.

Specimen Days

The novel is divided into what are essentially three discrete short stories, unified by common threads such as character names and types, story location (New York City), story themes (such as shared humanity), and the presence of Walt Whitman (whether through actual physical presence, quotation of his works via narrator or character, or the spirit of his ideas expressed through narrator or character).

Sulfathiazole

Sulfathiazole is mentioned in chapter 104 of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle and New Dictonary, and several of his short stories.

Ted Cowan

He not only wrote for Comics, but also Annuals, 'Libraries' and short stories for many publishers including: Odhams Books Ltd., Fleetway Publications Ltd., IPC Ltd. and extensively in later years D.C. Thomson & Company Ltd. of Dundee, Scotland.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

The Hour of the Dragon

In the hardcover Gnome Press edition of the Conan stories, Conan the Conqueror follows the short stories collected as King Conan; in the paperback Lancer/Ace edition, it follows the short stories collected as Conan the Usurper.

The Penultimate Truth

Dick also drew upon two other of his short stories for the plot of the novel: "The Mold of Yancy" and "The Unreconstructed M".

The Voices of Time

The Voices of Time (collection), a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard

V. C. Sreejan

It includes an essay on the Dhvani theory which argues that Dhvani is the same as metaphor in the broad sense of the term, an essay on the ideological underpinnings of some short stories and essays on T. Padmanabhan and Paul Zacharia.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

It contains short stories, letters, photographs, and a few of the sketches that Feynman created in later life when he had learned to draw from an artist friend, Jirayr Zorthian.

Yale Strom

He also composed all the New Jewish music for the National Public Radio series "Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories From the Old World to the New", hosted by Leonard Nimoy, as well as numerous film scores.