Category Archives: Short Stories

Irish Short Story Month Year 3: Two from Oscar Wilde

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

Irish Short Story Month is an annual event hosted by Mel U of The Reading Life. To participate all you need to do is read at least one Irish short story during the month of March. In 2011 I read … Continue reading →

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A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Last week I posted my thoughts on Laura Silver Bell by Sheridan Le Fanu for Irish Short Story Week. I then wanted to read another short work by an Irish author and remembered that A House of Pomegranates by Oscar … Continue reading →

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Laura Silver Bell by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Irish Short Story Week)

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

This week (14-20 March) Mel U of The Reading Life is hosting an Irish Short Story Week. If you’d like to participate all you need to do is read at least one short story by an Irish author. There are … Continue reading →

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Review: The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories by Wilkie Collins

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

Time for one more review before the RIP challenge ends! Having read so many of Wilkie Collins’ books and loving them all, I’m starting to worry now whenever I pick up one that I haven’t read yet, in case that’s … Continue reading →

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Short Story: The Vampyre by John Polidori

Posted on September 11, 2010 by

As I’m hoping to read Dracula soon, I thought it might be a good idea to also read one of Bram Stoker’s influences – John Polidori’s The Vampyre. This short story is considered to be one of the first vampire … Continue reading →

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Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Mollie Panter-Downes was the London correspondent for the New Yorker and this collection from Persephone Books brings together a number of her contributions to the magazine which were written during World War II. The book opens with her Letter from … Continue reading →

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Short Story Reviews: Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Lawson

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

One of my personal challenges for 2010 was to read more short stories. So far I haven’t been making much progress, but I made up for it this week by reading two very different short stories: The Brazilian Cat by … Continue reading →

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