short stories

I enjoy reading short stories. They are great because they are able to tell a whole story in a few pages, where as novels take hundreds of pages to do the same thing. I like all kinds of short stories but I like horror the best. Horror is great for short stories because I think of short stories as stories that are told around a nice campfire, and suspense is easily built up in both these kinds of stories. An example of this is "The Monkey's Paw." I like d this book because it was a good ole creepy tale that can be told at night. Another short story we read was "The Interlopers." I liked this one simply for its ending that was not expacted by the reader. Long story short, after the 2 life long enemies became friends, and were waiting to be saved by their men, a pack of wolves came and assumably ate them. A common thing with all short stories is that I find them to be more for entertainment rather than emotional issues, which is good if you are tired of all the sappy crap.