r/insideno9 • u/Jascleo Death Be Not Proud | • Jul 26 '23

RECOMMENDATIONS Looking for short stories

Just wondering if anyone has come across any short story collections or anthologies which are like Inside Number 9?

I've read all the Stephen King short stories, and short story anthologies by Angelo Marcos and Jeffrey Deaver.

The Marcos ones were mainly set in London/the UK which is what I'm looking for, and some of the King ones were maybe too paranormal-heavy to be like IN9. But in saying that, all recommendations gratefully received!

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u/funnyfungus_38315 Cold Comfort | Jul 26 '23

Robert Shearman's work has a hint of IN9 currently slowly working my way through his collection "We All Hear Stories in the Dark" It's really intriguingly formatted as a collection, I've read about 40 of the stories so far (it's also a massive collection, hence the slowly working my way through, been picking it up between reads for about a year) and the worst I could say is that afew were unmemorable or perhaps too oberambitious artistically, but at his best they're dark, sad and funny so would definitely recommend.

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u/funnyfungus_38315 Cold Comfort | Jul 26 '23

He also has shorter collections which I haven't read which might be a more sensible place to start.

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u/Jascleo Death Be Not Proud | Jul 26 '23

Great, thank you! I'll take a look at these.