Horror Subgenre Challenge! - hosted by dexlud

Short Story Horror
Short story horror is a horror that is told in short stories. This genre will most likely overlap with some of these other ones, so feel free to reuse a book, although try not to!

Examples Include: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, Stories of the Occult by Jamie King, Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

What Moves the Dead

Sworn Soldier #1

T. Kingfisher

165 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

245 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ literary short stories dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Cuentos macabros by Edgar Allan Poe

Cuentos macabros

Tales of the Macabre #1

Edgar Allan Poe

212 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark slow-paced
Let's Play White by Chesya Burke

Let's Play White

Chesya Burke

200 pages • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy horror short stories dark medium-paced
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates

9 pages • first pub 1966 (editions) user-added

fiction classics horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Las Posadas by V. Castro

Las Posadas

V. Castro

41 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

fiction erotica horror
H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon by Ramsey Campbell, Henry Kuttner, Henry Hasse, Simon, Robert A.W. Lowndes, C.A. Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Festa, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, Manly Wade Wellman, Jeffrey Thomas

H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon

Ramsey Campbell, Henry Kuttner, Henry Hasse, Simon, Robert A.W. Lowndes, C.A. Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Festa, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, Manly Wade Wellman, Jeffrey Thomas

393 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

medium-paced
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Eric LaRocca

102 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ dark tense fast-paced
In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch by Bradley Sands, Jeff Burk, Matty Byloos, Suzanne Burns, Violet LeVoit, Kevin Sampsell, Ben Loory, Nick Mamatas, Laura Lee Bahr, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Liam Davies, Garrett Cook, Gabriel Blackwell, Nick Antosca, Edward Morris, J. David Osborne, Jarret Middleton, Mike Kleine, Kirsten Alene, Zack Wentz, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Cameron Pierce, M.P. Johnson, Chris Kelso, Sam Pink, Matthew Revert, Kris Saknussemm, Jody Sollazzo, Thomas Ligotti, David J., Cody Goodfellow, John Skipp, Blake Butler, Jeffrey Thomas, Jeremy C. Shipp, Michael J. Seidlinger, Simon Logan, Andrew Wayne Adams

In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch

Bradley Sands, Jeff Burk, Matty Byloos, Suzanne Burns, Violet LeVoit, Kevin Sampsell, Ben Loory, Nick Mamatas, Laura Lee Bahr, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Liam Davies, Garrett Cook, Gabriel Blackwell, Nick Antosca, Edward Morris, J. David Osborne, Jarret Middleton, Mike Kleine, Kirsten Alene, Zack Wentz, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Cameron Pierce, M.P. Johnson, Chris Kelso, Sam Pink, Matthew Revert, Kris Saknussemm, Jody Sollazzo, Thomas Ligotti, David J., Cody Goodfellow, John Skipp, Blake Butler, Jeffrey Thomas, Jeremy C. Shipp, Michael J. Seidlinger, Simon Logan, Andrew Wayne Adams

345 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark slow-paced
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen

The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

Arthur Machen

389 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced