fuchsiamae:

fuchsiamae:

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

• the scarlet ibis
• marigolds
• the diamond necklace
• the monkey’s paw
• the open boat
• the lady and the tiger
• the minister’s black veil
• an occurrence at owl creek bridge
• a rose for emily
• (I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
• the cask of amontillado
  
• the yellow wallpaper
• the most dangerous game
• a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

alright folks, I just went through all 400 notes on this thing, made a list of all the stories people suggested, read the ones I wasn’t already familiar with, and here they are:

• the box-social
  
• the veldt
• the birds
• the lottery
• the landlady
• the interlopers
• the tell-tale heart
  
• the black cat
• the masque of the red death
• hop-frog
• a&p
• sucker
• miriam
• harrison bergeron
• uncle marcos
• it’s a good life
• all summer in a day
• lamb to the slaughter
• survivor type
• death by landscape
• popular mechanics
• good country people
• thank you ma’am
• not our first mistake
• cat and the coffee-drinkers
• the youngest doll
• the ones who walk away from omelas
• the curious case of benjamin button
• the man with the yellow face
• the seventh man
• the postman always rings twice
• the last question
• rain rain, go away
• there will come soft rains
• a sound of thunder
• spider boy
• where are you going, where have you been?
• the celebrated jumping frog of calavaras county
• hills like white elephants
• I have no mouth and I must scream

I can’t possibly mark them with individual trigger warnings, so just in general, don’t touch any of them unless you’re in the mood for fucked up shit