Between short story maestro Alice Munro winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature and George Saunders' Tenth of December blowing up across bestseller and year-end best lists, short stories have ...

We love being scared, but only if it’s the right type of scared. We prefer great terrifying stories, the kind of nightmares we can get away from by putting down our novel. Fortunately, there are ...

There's a good chance you read Washington Irving's classic short story in high school. But the surprise success of Fox's new TV series loosely based on the story is a great excuse to go back and ...

It's easy to feel like you don't have time to read literature — especially hefty works by classic novelists. Between busy jobs and hectic weekends, cracking open a lengthy book that tackles humanity's ...

Look, everyone loves Halloween, what with all the pumpkins and the ghosties and the sheer terror lying in wait around ever corner. But why limit that feeling to one ...

Writing is not like assembling IKEA furniture: You can’t build your skills by reading an instruction manual and then viola, product assembled. Particularly in fiction, you largely learn by doing.

Dreams of Desire: Classic Short Stories, Greasy Joan & Company, at Live Bait Theater. Afterward, my wife called this collection of three staged short stories boring. That seemed harsh. I mean, sure, I ...