10/10 short stories?

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>>8485494

Neil Gaimen does some good work.

But "The Eye of Argon" is just...haunting.

Dostoevsky's White Nights and it's feels were on point

Borges: The Immortal

>>8485494
Does the Library of Babel count?

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>>8485494
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/cst1030/1030anth/steinbec.html

death of ivan ilyich or however you spell it in english was pretty good
i usually don't like short stories

>>8485494
Funes el memorioso

To Build a Fire by Jack London.

>>8485494

Pretty much all of the Petersburg Tales by Gogol.

Chekhov's trilogy (A Hard Case, Gooseberries, Concerning Love). I think many of his other short stories qualify as well, but these stand out.

>>8485494
El Sur.

Kipling:

>The man who would be king
>The gate of the hundred sorrows

Borges:

>The immortal
>Undr

Pessoa:

>The anarchist banker

Cortazar:

>The idol of rhe Cyclades
>Continuity of parks

Bierce:

>An occurence at Old Creek bridge

'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James is the best ghost story I ever read.

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>>8485494
Nobody here understands that The Eye of Argon is the 70s forerunner to Tundra.