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(5,447 posts)By Ambrose Bierce, set during the Civil War.
Ohiya
(2,244 posts)I know I saw a video of this decades ago. It probably wasn't called a video back then.
Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)From Wikipedia: "A TV version of the story starring British actor Ronald Howard was telecast in 1959 during the fifth season of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television anthology series."
I remember watching it. I had already read the story, though.
Ohiya
(2,244 posts)Now that I think about it, I think saw it in a high school class in the stone age.
Zorro
(15,751 posts)I remember it as a bit confounding when I watched it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,914 posts)I'm not familiar with the Alfred Hitchcock one, just the TZ one. I rather think it was only broadcast once, and not again. It was not an actual Twilight Zone production, but a French film that was purchased to be shown by that show.
ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)Second favorite is "Oil of Dog", also by Almighty God Bierce.
Polly Hennessey
(6,811 posts)by Shirley Jackson.
Ohiya
(2,244 posts)by Thomas Pynchon
Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)by Ursula K. LeGuinn. Science fiction-ish, but very poignant and thought-provoking.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)By Jack Vance
Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)I love discovering new stories, and I have already spotted three here.
Mendocino
(7,514 posts)I'm a proponent of the iceberg theory. Hemingway did more for less.
Zorro
(15,751 posts)Short but very creepy.
cornball 24
(1,481 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,234 posts)Cop and the Anthem
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)TlalocW
(15,392 posts)I recall reading, "The Gun Without a Bang," by Robert Sheckley back in Middle School English class, and it was panned by the entire class, but that's because we didn't get satire. I've remembered it though, and I've come to appreciate it and would like to read it again, but it's difficult to find.
My favorite collection of short stories is, "Woman Hollering Creek," by Sandra Cisneros, a collection of stories about Mexican and Mexican-American women and what they face in their daily lives.
TlalocW
R. P. McMurphy
(837 posts)"The Devil and Daniel Webster" - can't remember the author.
"The Open Window" - Saki
"The Ransom of Red Chief" - O. Henry
pansypoo53219
(21,004 posts)i picked up a reprint of it on pure whim & was laughing my ass off on the bus ride home.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Think of how many forests he saved with each short story published!!!
CrispyQ
(36,540 posts)The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
Paladin
(28,277 posts)I first read it when I was just a kid and couldn't fully understand all the elements at play; I've read it at least a dozen times since, and it just gets better and better.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,914 posts)Jim is a wonderful writer of short stories, currently has five collections out. I got the most recent this last weekend while at Mile Hi Con in Denver. Jim was also there and I got him to sign it for me. "Just Before Recess" is in Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Espadrille. The title story I didn't like at all.
You can read "Recess" on line. http://flashfictiononline.com/f20080301-just-before-recess-jim-van-pelt.html
I love the internet.