The Top 10 Short Stories - Epistolary: The top 10 epistolary style short stories of all time

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In this volume our classic authors share their narratives in the form of letters to create both intimacy and the knowing that the events unfolding, line by line, will bring both knowledge and revelation in very short order.

01 - Top Ten Stories - Epistolary - An Introduction

2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

3 - Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant

4 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle

5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain

6 - Diary of a Plain Girl by Amy Levy

7 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

8 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

9 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov

10 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

11 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee

12 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee