Books

I try to not remember The Veldt but I still liked it as a good read. I also hated Harrison Bergeron but I think I was suppose to?

I've always remembered H. G. Wells' The Red Room, altho it's shorter than most mentioned here I think. Just loved it. So unsettling. So evocative and creepy. It's been maybe thirteen years. 😂

Copy-pasta deserves a unit in my classroom, the Russian sleep experiment

Im still scarred by my english teacher enthusiastically reading certain scenes of Equus to the class.

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. If comics count, The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

It isn't a short story, but it might as well have been.

In my high school senior level English class, they had us read "On the Beach." The class as a whole did not like it. We told the teacher that we would not be reading further and would not be engaging on the book any more. It took a week and they moved us on to "Wuthering Heights" which was far easier to read.

The Jaunt by Stephen King

Oh man, let's talk about short stories that defined my taste in literature!

• To Build A Fire: definitely built a fascination in me of the morbid and got me way more into survivalism than quick sand ever did. I live in a cold place too and that put it well into perspective how dangerous that can be.

• The Sniper: This was my start into war literature, and what a good start. I keep coming back to this one when I hear people talk about a civil war in the US. It's more unsettling now than ever before.

• The Lottery. How couldn't that be on the list?

• Cask of Amontillado: big vibes. Poe made me goth-brained no doubt.

Our school also had us read Robert Frost. Really great way to introduce kids to the idea that 'some folks just kinda wanna die all the time'. That and why child labor laws are good and important.

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

https://archive.org/details/coldequationsoth0000godw

Or

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

https://archive.org/details/the-veldt

Borrasca (just the original, not the add-on parts)

The Magic. I believe it is a short story, and I'm sorry to say I don't know the author. It's quite scary if you follow the instructions. A good lesson in the power of imagination and ritual.

Have no clue what it was called but I remember having to read a short story that included a guy who would take the family cat into a locked room and watch porn…

The Pedestrian, Ray Bradbury.

It might not be disturbing, but I think that anyone that is going into the Engineering field should read Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke.

Asimov's Breeds There a Man ...?

A suicidal genius figures out the relationship between his brilliance and his mental health.

I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier

We had to read 'Der Vorleser' in which a 15 year old boy gets into a relationship with a 36 year old woman. A strange choice to force kids about that age to read (we were a bit older than 15, I think. But still...)

"Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch" still haunts me...

Of mice and men

It was not in English... But we had to read the golden egg. Story about a guy who s girl is missing. He keeps looking for her. Has driems about them being close together but not seeing the other. . At the end he finds a guy who sais he can do the same to him as he did to the girlfriend. Last you know he is like burried..

I don't know about scary, but I would assign Teddy by J. D. Salinger.

Also, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.

Another one I really like that I feel like nobody else has ever read is: After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned by Dave Eggers (it's written from a dog's POV)

I guess this is more "short stories that I like" lol

Guts by chuck palahniuk.