Top Ten Horror Short Stories in the World!

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

Why is it? We're called r/horrorlit and that means we should be the go-to place for horror literature. We're already revising the TOP TEN HORROR NOVELS OF ALL ETERNITY so let's update our four-year-old short story poll, too!

What is it? Any short story is eligible. The ten short stories with the most upvotes will make the list, the rest will die like dogs. Novellas are not eligible (because we're covering them on the novel poll). What is a novella? Anything over 17,500 words. So no Turn of the Screw. No At the Mountains of Madness. No The Mist. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES DON'T COUNT. Non-conformists will be deleted. Individual stories only, please!

THE RULES

• FORMAT: Keep it simple and keep it standard.

Book Title - Author's Name - Year Published. So, for example: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson - 1948.

Feel free to include an embedded Wiki link or a link to the online text if you want to be awesome.

• REPOSTING: for the love of Cthulhu, don't do it. Ctrl-F to see if your favorite is already on here, then take a deep breath, and upvote it. I'll be doing my best to delete reposts, but we must all work together to make this poll a repost free zone or we will all die, chained to one another by the neck, and marched into Satan's human fat furnaces.

• VOTING: vote UP for the stories you like, but don't downvote the stories you hate.

This poll will be active for two (2) weeks to encourage as much participation as possible. Now let's go out there and make us a canon!

NOTE

If you want to vote for a novella or novel, head on over to The Horror Lit Poll for the Greatest Horror Novels of All Time and be counted!