START READING HERE: The Best Short Stories & Short Story Collections

This is a great collection. Again, there's some truly dark stuff. There's some strange, weird, like almost new weird whimsy stuff.

Style, tone, texture, each story takes on its own type of voice, its own type of feel, its own type of atmosphere. And he's able to shift from one to the other just effortlessly.

When these came out way back in the day, they made us look at horror in a kind of a different way. It kind of broke a lot of the classical molds.

Or this one came out most recently, The Greatest Hits. So, it kind of pulls from all of those. But, anywhere anytime you see a collection by Harlan Ellison, it is going to be tough to go wrong and not find a new fave, I feel, if that's the kind of vibe you're looking for.

And then he's moved into longer novels, some very great novels like King Sorrow I thought was top-notch. I really enjoyed that. It was my most recent read.

if you see a copy of the howling man and other stories by Richard Matheson grab that what an amazing collection of short stories

Now, this next one goes up with Welcome to the Monkey House is one of my favorite collections of all time.

This is one of my favorite collections of short stories of all time. So if you were to rank it this would maybe be number one. I yeah probably it very well might be okay and the reason is because there's so many different flavors and taste in this collection and it's by an absolute master.