Hello everyone and welcome to the second part of my Short Stories Challenge for 2018. I have to admit, I’m feeling a little disillusioned writing this post and preparing which short stories I’m going to read for the next few months as in Part One earlier this year, I had so many disappointments and very few stellar stories that stood out to me. I think the biggest failures for me would have to be The Balloon Hoax by Edgar Allan Poe and Books And Roses by Helen Oyeyemi but I could mention a few more. However, let’s end on a positive – there was the wonderful The Apple Tree by Daphne du Maurier and Dibblespin by Angela Slatter which completely restored my faith in short stories. It is because of stories like these that I want to carry on with this challenge and find more great authors like the many, many ones I’ve found so far, purely from their short fiction alone. Let’s do this!
20th Century Ghost by Joe Hill from the collection 20th Century Ghosts.
The Coincidence Of The Arts by Martin Amis from the collection Stories To Get You Through The Night.
Beachworld by Stephen King from the collection Skeleton Crew.
Set-Up by Dianne Gray from the collection Manslaughter And Other Tears.
Some Drolls Are Like That And Some Are Like This by Lucy Wood from the collection Diving Belles.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter from the collection The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives Of Women.
Hope you enjoy these ones more!
Thank you, me too! I was so disappointed by how many of the stories I didn’t enjoy in my first part. ☹️ but onwards and upwards!
The only one I’ve read is The Copper Beeches and it’s a good’un, so hopefully that’s a good sign for all the rest…
Thank you I hope so! Fingers crossed 🤞🏻☺️