ITT: good short stories, especially ones with dark themes

cloud castle lake -nabby

>>7818207
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.

>>7818210
>>7818211
is there a way to read these online? I can't find anything

>>7818325
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/06/cloud-castle-lake/305003/

>>7818207
Ligotti's Temporary Supervisor was great. OPs pic was also great.

Shower of Gold - Barthelme
Escape from Spiderhead - Saunders
The Grandmother - Hawkes
Description of a Struggle - Kafka
A Country Doctor - Kafka

Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories

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>>7818207
>tfw you will never be a truly independent observer
>tfw you will only become moral bankrupt by not intervening in the world
>tfw can't live a life sitting around constantly
Why live?

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>>7818559
I mean if you're cool with watching other people set the world ablaze than by all means....

If you like DeLillo:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/30/midnight-in-dostoevsky

Tenth of December collection probably fits.

i've been reading Flannery O'Connor's complete short stories lately, some of them are very good. try The Heart of the Park, The Geranium (her first published story, from her early 20s i think) and A Good Man is Hard to Find.

>>7818207
Calvino, The Crow Comes Last.

In the Penal Colony really surprised me. I'm not that into a lot of Kafka short stuff, but it's genuinely disturbing and has that same aspect with the novels where it's a glimpse of some larger monstrosity. That and Great Wall of China are my faves.

Dino Buzzati, motherfuckers.

>>7818559
this

>>7818207
Liked that better than The Metamorphosis. Good taste OP.

Not very dark but The Nose by Nikolai Gogol is a good short story.

Carver's 'Dummy', 'Tell the Women We're Going'. Both gave me nausea and 1 hour wall-staring session

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Upon The Dull Earth is my favourite, the ending is horrifying

the overcoat by Gogol

in my opinion the best story ever written

>>7818548
These are great. Read these OP.

>>7818207
Lottery of Babylon obvs.

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>>7818207
I was a big fan of George Saunders' short story collection Tenth of December. Or really anything by George Saunders. That dude is fucking legit.

>>7818207
james purdy

>>7818207
with mimimal effort on your part you could tweak any wodehouse into a horror show

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