Create your own SK short story collection

If you are like me, you find that most SK collections have a few truly great stories, alot of very good ones, a few average, as well as a couple that were a waste of time to read. I was wondering what stories would make it into a collection edited by our members. So, Imagine you have 10 slots, no novellas, so they must be less than 100 pages each. Here are mine. I have never read Just after Sunset, so my list doesnt contain any from that book.

1. Children of the Corn
2. The Mangler
3. Survivor Type
4. Gramma
5. The Raft
6. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
7. Suffer the Little Children
8. The Man in the Black Suit
9. Lunch at the Gotham Cafe.
10. 1408

oh, what a wonderful thread! I think mine are:

1. All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
2. Popsy
3. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
4. Umney's Last Case
5. Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
6. The Boogeyman
7. Suffer the Little Children
8. Cain Rose Up
9. Crouch End
10. Night Surf

There are still a lot of stories I have yet to read but here's my top 10 from what I have read:

01 Do The Dead Sing?
02 Dolan's Cadillac
03 Graveyard Shift
04 Gray Matter
05 The Ledge
06 The Man Who Loved Flowers
07 Night Surf
08 Quitter's Inc.
09 The Raft
10 Survivor Type

10 stories seems like a very short short story collection, but I love the thread idea. Here's mine:

The Boogeyman
The Monkey
Jerusalem's Lot
Here There Be Tygers
Suffer The Little Children
Gramma
The Reploids
Crouch End
N
The End Of The Whole Mess

Yeah Brice, probably shoulda been 15 to twenty, but since it would be a book from everyones favorites maybe after we get some more replies we could compile a list of 15 - 20.

maybe we would have a better chance if we had more slots: so far there isn't a single story to be seen on every list

Wow, tough, tough, tough. Here's 10; no particular order except for the first one:

Last Rung on the Ladder, The
Monkey, The
Boogeyman, The
Quitters, Inc.
Jaunt, The
1408
N.
Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The
L. T.'s Theory of Pets
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

bump in the wake of Short Story Battle Royale. I wish more people had participated, the result may have been quite different.

I'll take a stab at this.

The Raft
Dolan's Cadillac
The Ledge
1408
In the Deathroom
A Very Tight Place
The Death of Jack Hamilton
Battleground
The Man in the Black Suit
Chattery Teeth

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Originally Posted by divemaster

Wow, tough, tough, tough. Here's 10; no particular order except for the first one:

Last Rung on the Ladder, The
Monkey, The
Boogeyman, The
Quitters, Inc.
Jaunt, The
1408
N.
Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The
L. T.'s Theory of Pets
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

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Huh, it's funny that I have Quitter's, Inc. in my list from last year, but I just voted for The Raft in the battle thread. I really like them both; I guess it's just what mood you catch me in.

"Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," "Children of the Corn," "N.," "1408," "The Death of Jack Hamilton," "The Gingerbread Girl," "Jerusalem's Lot," "Survivor Type," "Mute," "The Night Flier," and "The Man with the Black Suit? would be my "best of... SK's Short Fiction" book.

Maybe, if space allowed, including Mile 81 in there, too.

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Originally Posted by bmcmolo

"Lunch at the Gotham Cafe,"

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Yes!