If you were asked to name a famous novel, or even a famous poem, you could probably rattle off at least a handful quite comfortably off the top of your head.
But try and think of the titles of a few famous short stories. It’s harder, isn’t it?
The thing is, some of them are ridiculously good.
A few years ago, I started buying an annual anthology called The Best British Short Stories, edited by Nicholas Royle. I don’t love all the stories published, but every year there are a bunch of absolute gems from authors I’ve usually never heard of.
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