King's best short stories!

[Kurtman518]

I haven't read all of his short stories, especially the more recent ones; but here are my favorites that I have read (not including novellas)

Jerusalem's Lot

Children of the Corn

The Road Virus Heads North

Riding the Bullet

The House on Maple Street

Strawberry Spring

Dolan's Cadillac

All that You Love Will Be Carried Away

Sometimes They Come Back

[Unregistered]

Basically all of his stories I like (the only truly bad story I think I read was The Milkman 2, it was just horrible. Interesting dialogue, though).

Night Shift:
- Jerusalems Lot (Goshdarn this one's scary...VERY scary.)
-Boogeyman (Goshdarn this one's scary, too.)
-Strawberry Spring (Goshdarn...this is scary...I'm starting to see a pattern with my review...but Jesus! The last line of the story os chillworthy.)
-One For The Road (Again, diddo ^)
*Honorable Mention: Children of the Corn.*

Different Seasons:
I love it all, even Breathing Method which some people cry nay at. This is my favorite King book, and it certainly is amongst the best of his writing.

Skeleton Crew:
-Cain Rose Up (wonderfully written, this one stays with me for some reason.)
-The Wedding Gig (an oddball that I oddly loved.)
-The Raft
-Beachworld (didn't like it my first reading, but my second reading I liked it.)
-Reapers Image (same mystifying writing as Cain Rose Up)
-Suvivor Type
-The Reach.
-Uncle Otto's Truck

Four Past Midnight:
I haven't read much of this one. Only Secret Window, Secret Garden, which I absolutely hated. I'm sorry but I didn't like it.

N&D
-Dolans Cadillac (awesome revenge story)
-Suffer the Children (disturbing as all hell)
-Chattery Teeth (suprisingly good)
-Crouch End (horrifyingly creepy)

Hearts in Atlantis:
Haven't read it yet, sue me.

Everything's Eventual:
I love everything about it. Every story is a piece of art, perhaps his best story collection, or at least his most practiced.

Just After Sunset:
Unfortunately I think this is his worst collection...I love N. and The Cat From Hell, though.

Full Dark:
-1922
-A Good Marrige

[kash33]

Hey! Just did some googling on King's scariest short stories and found this thread...I know I'm way late to the party but I think I'll add my top 10 here. Not including novellas (of which Low Men In Yellow Coats is the best I think)

The End of the Whole Mess-probably will always be my #1.
(The Rest aren't in any order)
Survivor Type
The Death of Jack Hamilton
Nona
Gramma
One For the Road
The House on Maple Street
Little Sisters of Euluria
Dolan's Cadillac
Riding the Bullet

[HPMcClendon]

There are SO many that I love, but to save time I will pick the one that stuck with me the most from the earliest age.

The Monkey

[Chris1974100]

hmm nice list of Stephen King friend

[Brandy Searles]

The Man in the Black suit was awesome... I just finished it and had to come here to say how much i loved it... I work in a nursing home and work with the elderly very closely and they tend to get pretty superstitious the older they get... they see things that aren't there, they talk to people that we can't see, I would've loved for him to go into a bit more detail about thy guys day to day life... I see a story there,

[doowopgirl]

I just finished reading Night Shift after a very long absence. There were a lot of stories I had completely forgotten, like Strawberry Spring, The Man who Liked Flowers, so they were like new to me. Some of the stories were a bit cheesy and you can SK has well honed his talents, by some forgotten gems.

[Tiny]

I dont know if there short stories or short novels but.

The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon

Blaze.

Everythings Eventual

--my 3 favs

[fljoe0]

No particular order:

The Mist
Jerusalem's Lot
Quitters Inc
The Monkey
The Raft
Apt Pupil
The End Of The Whole Mess
1408
Low Men In Yellow Coats
1922

[Todash]

Also, would anyone judge me too harshly if I said that I didn't "get" the Man in the Black Suit and why it's so popular? If anyone wants to share some insight on this story that I may have missed, I'm listening.

Maybe fright is personal, like humor. If you have to explain it ...

All I know is that it scared the crap out of me. The teeth and the fish and the bees and the running. Another story that has stayed with me similarly for years--decades--is Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven." The last few pages, especially, took up permanent, persistent residence in my memory, and if I ever get up from the bed and head out of the bedroom to get a drink of water and my husband says "Where are you going?," I might just scream.