The top 10 collections of short stories of all time!

1. Ray Bradbury's "Cat's Pajamas" Drunken Senators losing in the Indian casino one state after another, until the whole country is run.
The greatest artist of our time is a street bully, Master graffiti and aerosol. By the way, "Mafia Mixer" helps Francis Scott Fitzgerald to finish the unfinished novel about the golden age of Hollywood.

2. Ivan Bunin "Dark Avenues" Late book of prose IA Bunin, named after the first story `Dark allei`, written in the late 30's and 40's. This swan song of the great Russian writer, entirely devoted to love. `This is the best and most original that I wrote in zhizni` - admitted Ivan
. From the modern classics of American literature - first published twenty stories. And a little poem as an epilogue.

3. Neil Geysan "Smoke and mirrors" Nightmares and strange, surreal reality that is far superior to those dreams.
Here, in the second-hand, you can at a reasonable price to buy the Holy Grail ... Here Black Cat, out of charity chosen inhabitants of a country house, pay for their kindness quite unexpected way.
Here in the city lavkraftovskom Insmute cheerful tourist bitter drinks in the company of priests Cthulhu ...
Here, the struggle of the angels against demons transformed into esthetic "murder case", the werewolf becomes a private detective, but a fairy tale of Snow White - stylish "Gothic prose". Smoke and mirrors are changing our world - and our consciousness ...

4. Joanne Harris "Tea with the birds" Faith Hope and escape from the nursing home into the most fashionable shoe store in London. Witches coven is going on two decades of school graduation. A young woman tries to literally follow the recipes from the cookbook her mother in law - with unpredictable consequences ...

5. Daphne Du Maurier "Blue lens" It's an amazing writer. In her stories detective story harmoniously intertwined with mysticism, domestic scenes with colorful descriptions of nature, a melodrama with irony, pathos filled with caustic satire. Her characters are always in intense, critical, demanding action, action situations. The collection "The blue lens" includes the most interesting and significant works of Daphne du Maurier.

6. Andre Maurois "Violets on Wednesdays" Morua Collection of stories by which the writer became a living legend of French literature. A collection of small masterpieces and exquisite irony. Pearls true Gallic short fiction!

7. Milorad Pavic "Scary love stories" Collection of new works of prominent Serbian writer M.Pavicha where each thing makes us complicit in some kind of magical games, started by the writer. Pavic favorite themes - love, death, the mysterious dreams, the past - again heard in his prose

8.. Akutagawa Ryunosuke. you NovellyPered one of the most famous writers of the XX century Japan. Thinnest psychologist, the owner of the bright prophetic gift, a brilliant novelist, he combined his creativity and Eastern European worlds.

9. Prosper Merimee's "Carmen, and other short stories" Outstanding French writer Prosper Mérimée, a lawyer by education, a polyglot, a connoisseur of history, archeology and fine arts, sooner entered the literature. After a brilliant hoaxes associated with the publication of "Theatre of Clara Gasul" and "Guzly", the writer became famous as the creator of brilliant historical novel "Chronicle of the reign of Charles the IX" and the magnificent historical novels and short stories. The dynamic genre novel writer style reaches its greatest psychological depth and expressiveness. In the famous novel "Carmen" the writer managed to create one of the most striking images of world literature.

10. Edgar Allan Poe "All stories" The impact on the world literature of Edgar Allan Poe - American poet, novelist, journalist and critic - is very high. He is considered the founder of the new for its time, a literary genre - detective stories. The magic of his poetry was fascinated many generations of poets. He was a man of brilliant talent and the sad fate that left a mark on his work. Mysterious stories, in which it is difficult to draw the line between reality and fiction, unsteady borderline state of mind when the horror suppresses all other feelings, fascinate and make believe in the inexplicable.