[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

• the scarlet ibis
• marigolds
• the diamond necklace
• the monkey’s paw
• the open boat
• the lady and the tiger
• the minister’s black veil
• an occurrence at owl creek bridge
• a rose for emily
• (I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
• the cask of amontillado
  
• the yellow wallpaper
• the most dangerous game
• a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[fuchsiamae]

alright folks, I just went through all 400 notes on this thing, made a list of all the stories people suggested, read the ones I wasn’t already familiar with, and here they are:

• the box-social
  
• the veldt
• the birds
• the lottery
• the landlady
• the interlopers
• the tell-tale heart
  
• the black cat
• the masque of the red death
• hop-frog
• a&p
• sucker
• miriam
• harrison bergeron
• uncle marcos
• it’s a good life
• all summer in a day
• lamb to the slaughter
• survivor type
• death by landscape
• popular mechanics
• good country people
• thank you ma’am
• not our first mistake
• cat and the coffee-drinkers
• the youngest doll
• the ones who walk away from omelas
• the curious case of benjamin button
• the man with the yellow face
• the seventh man
• the postman always rings twice
• the last question
• rain rain, go away
• there will come soft rains
• a sound of thunder
• spider boy
• where are you going, where have you been?
• the celebrated jumping frog of calavaras county
• hills like white elephants
• I have no mouth and I must scream

I can’t possibly mark them with individual trigger warnings, so just in general, don’t touch any of them unless you’re in the mood for fucked up shit

[july-19th-club]

the rocking-horse winner

[uncoolbutcanadian]

I’m finishing up my first literature class on short stories and I know two of those!! Yay

[aflamethatneverdies]

Can I add: 

Little Things 

and

What we Talk about When we talk about Love by Raymond Carver 

The Quiet by Carys Davies

Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant

I didn’t realise that I’ve read quite a few of the ones mentioned. I like reading such stories, y’all. 

[lynati]

I’m so glad people already added The Veldt to your list; that story fucked me up and I think everyone should read it.

[mendedpixie7]

Tomorrow’s Child by Ray Bradbury completely fucked me up, but it’s not too triggering, just really, really REALLY weird. I love it.

[christinedaaechagny]

Three Skeleton Key

[latterday]

the cold equations by tom godwin
the earthquake in chile by heinrich von kleist
going to meet the man by james baldwin
josephine the singer, or the mouse folk by franz kafka
the passenger by ray bradbury (just…read every bradbury story tbh)
samuel by grace paley
to build a fire by jack london

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

don’t read “i have no mouth and i must scream” 

just don’t do it.

[afro-elf]

please read the lottery tho

[greymimikyu]

yo i keep mentioning this but the goblin market what the fuck

[logicalbookthief]

Details by China Melville
Snow, Glass and Apples by Neil Gaiman
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant