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'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs
Introduction by Krishan Coupland As with many cultural artefacts, my first experience of the general idea behind W W Jacobs’s superb...
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Apr 8, 20228 min read
'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Katherine Chopin
Introduction by Amy Cipolla Barnes. “Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars.” When you...
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Apr 1, 202216 min read
'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
Introduction by Cheryl Pappas. I’ve always been captivated by this parable by Kafka. A man is in a cage at the circus, on display for his...
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Mar 26, 202213 min read
'Pictures' by Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by Ailsa Cox Katherine Mansfield’s writing is an inspiration for me, because her style is so highly charged emotionally and...
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Mar 19, 202251 min read
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by JL. Bogenschneider. The influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s philosopher-detective – C. August Dupin – and his investigation...
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Mar 12, 20227 min read
'Three Pictures' by Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Melissa Fu. When Tom invited me to share a classic short story, after much deliberation, I chose Virginia Woolf’s 'Three...
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Mar 5, 202230 min read
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M.R.James
Introduction by Gaynor Jones. Raised on a diet of Stephen King, Clive Barker and 80s Slasher films, I consider myself fairly scare-proof....
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Feb 26, 202221 min read
'The I.O.U.' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction by Sophie Haydock. 'The IOU' by the American author F Scott Fitzgerald was written more than a hundred years ago – in 1920,...
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'The Room in the Tower' by E F Benson
Introduction by Ben Pester This is a story about dreams as premonitions. The narrator repeatedly dreams that he arrives at a large...
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Feb 12, 202212 min read
'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant
Introduction by Amanda Huggins. The necklace in Maupassant’s story is beautiful. To Mathilde, it represents everything she wants and...
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Feb 5, 202219 min read
'The New Utopia' by Jerome K. Jerome
Introduction by John O'Farrell Today we only remember Jerome K. Jerome for the wonderful Three Men In A Boat and although the following...
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Jan 29, 20225 min read
'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
Introduction by Vicky Grut. Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904), lived in Louisiana and much of her early writing drew on her years in the...
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Jan 15, 202237 min read
'The Nose' by Nikolai Gogol
Introduction by Chloe Wilson. Imagine that, one day, your nose not only vanished from your face, but then ascended to a higher social...
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Jan 1, 202226 min read
'The Daughters of The Late Colonel' by Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by Adrian Duncan. Back in 2008 or so, when I turned thirty, I began attending creative writing classes in Dublin. I'd been...
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Dec 7, 202140 min read
'Days' by Dorothy Edwards
Introduction by Jo Lloyd. I only read Dorothy Edwards for the first time quite recently. For years, when people mentioned her, I had...
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Dec 5, 202163 min read
'Prelude' by Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by Sam Reese. We tend to imagine the short story as a neat, trim form. Well-organised. Self-contained. Katherine Mansfield’s...
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