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Hi gang! I thought that in order to keep things organized while we discuss all of these short stories, we can have a central thread which I’ll point to in my message to all members introducing our short story project. On this thread, we can then decide who and what we want to read next, and I’ll then point you to the various threads from this central thread.

I had to post a book in the thread's "about" section, so I simply grabbed a book with an appropriate title. If anybody wants to read out of that actual book, please make your case and we can perhaps see how easily available it is.

Right, so our current discussion re Gabo's (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) The Autumn of the Patriarch can be found here: /topic/show/...

Next, the thread for Haruki Murakami's First Person Singular: Stories, which we’re starting on October 21, to be found here: /topic/show/...

After starting with, and concomitant to reading the Murakami, our Halloween special will be Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart to be found here:
/topic/show/..., which will be for Oct. 29 to Nov 2.

Re Shirley Jackson:
I have read the entire short story collection that accompanies Shirely Jackson's The Lottery and Other Stories in search of creepy stories for Halloween, and although here and there subtly creepy, they're perhaps not her best. I think many of them were written before she found her "dark" voice, and many of the protagonists were like this :
Just not as cheerful. They were mostly extremely housewifey (even the male protagonist was decidedly domestic), but either powerless and subservient, or mean and manipulative. However, even though some of them were creepy or disturbing, the menace-meter wasn't really high enough for Halloween, I felt.

(Keep in mind that S.J. was born in the early 20th century, and most of these stories seem to hearken from the 30's 40's and 50's, and were very... restrained? )

(Other) Amy came to the rescue with a suggestion of this collection: Dark Tales, from which I've now read a few stories, and they seem far better. There are definitely a few from the Lottery collection that I would love to discuss, but for "Dark" stories in honor of Halloween, I definitely think we should go with the Dark collection.

So: Shirley Jackson thread, to be started on November 15, to be found here: /topic/show/...