There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Stephen King writes big books. Tomes, you could say. The Stand and It both top out at well over a thousand pages each, and he has dozens of other titles that aren’t far behind. One of his own villains ...

The short story is a type of fiction that tells a poignant narrative on a smaller scale. It is important that the characters and the plot of a short story are established and developed properly within ...

In another recent Halloween-themed post here, I discussed the psychology behind the nature of ghost stories and, to a degree, horror stories more generally. In response to a comment about what I ...