There are writers who wrote stories of sober satire. satire The main purpose of satire is to attack the evils of society. There is serious humor in the works of Americans like Eudora Welty's Petrified Man (1939) and Dorothy Parker's The Custard Heart (1939). Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), and Joel Chandler Harris's The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (1894) are remarkable. You will see that the most famous humorous tales and fables were written by the Americans. Humor These types of stories are meant for producing surprise and delight. The fine examples of such stories are British writer John Collier's horror fantasy Bottle Party (1939), Irish author Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover (1941), and British author Saki's Tobermory (1911). Fantasy Fantasy stories are nothing but the fair combination of the old tales tradition and the supernatural details. Italian writer Giovanni Verga's The She-Wolf (1880), and Chinese writer Yeh Shao-Chun's Mrs.

Ancient Tales It is the power of the utilization of the ancient form of the tale in the modern short story. Lets us have a glimpse on each one of them in this article.

Some of the types are ancient tales, humor, satire, fantasy, biography, education, local color, and history. As there are varieties of subjects, themes and art, there are various types of a short story.

Best types of short stories to write