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Berenice (short story) Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) The Birds (story) Black Canaan; The Black Cat (short story) Black Colossus; The Black Stranger; Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper; The Blue Air Compressor; The Boarded Window; The Body Snatcher; The Boogeyman (short story) The Book (short story ...
Creative nonfiction: factual narrative presented in the form of a story so as to entertain the reader. Personal narrative: a prose relating personal experience and opinion to a factual narrative. Essay: a short literary composition, often reflecting the author's outlook or point of view. Position paper
Fiction writing is the composition of non-factual prose texts. Fictional writing often is produced as a story meant to entertain or convey an author's point of view. The result of this may be a short story, novel, novella, screenplay, or drama, which are all types (though not the only types) of fictional writing styles.
Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". [1]
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.
Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.
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ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story, as well as a story of a black dog; a retelling of the legend of the death of Oleg the Prophet; a story of an adult-sized doll that comes to life. Inspired by the Swiss Alps tale of the Sennentuntschi; a story from the Lincolnshire Marsh, which was alleged to be inhabited by evil spirits; a ...