What are some of your favorite creepy/supernatural/gothic short stories?

I want to read more short stories this Fall and I’m definitely gonna read The Raven by Poe

Haruki Murakami's Barn Burning

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by JD Salinger

also Shirley Jackson is goatified for these

New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

I liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Havent read that yet but my gf loved it her collection of short stories is just fire tho. The Lottery a classic too

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@0ddJay

Where are you Going, Where Have you Been, by Joyce Carol Oates. This is probably the most unsettling story I've ever read, and the only piece of fiction to really get under my skin.

The Veldt by Raymond Bradbury

A Rose For Emily by Faulkner

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (Although my favorite short story from him is Paladin of The Lost Hour, not horror)

If you like cosmic horror you can try Thomas Ligotti. His whole career is creepy short stories.

@Koala
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Didn't I get you to read the Joyce Carol Oates story, years ago? Crazy how many similarities it shares with A Good Man is Hard To Find.

Yes sir damn good stuff my boy

Have you read anything good lately? If so, would love some recs.

Back to the story, the very subtle inclusion of magic realism really freaks me out. And the last paragraph f***s me up

My sweet little blue-eyed girl,” he said, in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him, so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it.

But the ending to A Good Man is somehow more powerful, even though I don't really know what it means

His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother’s head cleared for an instant. She saw the man’s face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.

You know I've never actually read or at least finished a novel/full book from O'Connor

Tbh man I took most of the year off from reading other than Steinbeck's Cannery Row which was solid and now reading East of Eden.

And yea both short stories are classics, as for Flannery novels I read Wise Blood last year and that was an interesting one. I felt like some of the religious allegories went over my head but the story itself is great southern gothic as expected.