Some of Stephen King's best works can be found in short story collections like Nightmares & Dreamscapes, You Like It Darker, and Skeleton Crew.

Zach Williams started his career as a high-school and middle-school English teacher. But when he became a new parent, all the anxieties and joys of having a kid renewed his urgency to do something ...

Of the countless short stories Stephen King has written, classics like "Survivor Type," "The Jaunt," and "Quitters, Inc." are ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bora Chung, author of "Cursed Bunny," a collection of offbeat, surreal short stories newly translated from Korean into English. A girl whose brother feeds on her blood, ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

TALES OF DYSFUNCTION: When it came to crafting characters for her debut collection, The Ballad of Cherrystoke and Other Stories, author Melanie McGee Bianchi says, “I wanted them to be punchy … and to ...

Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it’s won the major award for translated fiction. By Alex ...