The Best 5 Autumn Stories
If you do not know what to devote your evening to, dedicate it to the autumn. To the autumn reading, specifically. Take a book off the shelf. And we are always ready to tell you what to read.
Ray Bradbury. October Country (1955)
The fourth collection of writer’s short stories includes stories written during 1945-1953. This is the collection of horror stories, interspersed with psychological life stories. It can be defined as a horror book for beginners. Here the reader will meet people who travel through their own memories, dwarfs, trying to become higher, a woman convinced that a baby hunts her, and a writer who believes that the death will come from vengeful winds… And even more mysterious and unexpected things. So, take a warm blanket, make yourself comfortable on a couch, and… don’t be afraid.
Nancy Kleinbaum. Dead Poets Society (1889)
It all starts in the autumn, more precisely, in the new academic year. A new English teacher comes to Welton Academy. He offers each student to make their lives extraordinary, thereby setting a challenge. So guys start some secret club again, where they give out all the emotions and thoughts. This was also inspired by the in the world of poetry, which have been seen differently.
But it turns out that freedom is something pretty ambiguous.
Alexander Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
One rainy day… A bit of nostalgia and melancholy with life affirming and all-conquering mood. Sounds pretentious and twisted, but it is really hard to find the words to describe this book briefly. The protagonist – Edmond Dantes – falls into trouble, if you can call it this way. He is wrongly accused of treason and is closed in prison. And not just in prison – the castle, from where there’s no escape and where he is to stay for life. The years are passing, and he can’t even count those years. One day everything changes, and Dantes begins to think about the escape plan, no matter how incredible it may sound. But the escape is just the beginning of this story. Because there are so many things to do ahead: to find all the friends and perpetrators, to help some and revenge the others.
Stephen King. The Shining (1977)
The Halloween is coming… What would be good to read before the spookiest holiday in the entire world than the classics of horror stories! Jack Torrance gets a job at a mountain hotel and moves there with his family. Jack drinks and often acts violently. He is a former teacher, who was expelled from work. The job at the hotel is just an opportunity to finish the novel and to wait until his friend will make everything up at school. Jack’s son, Danny, is just 6 years old. But the cook Dick Holloran notices that the boy is special. He shines more than all others. Shines means that he can see what is out of reach for the vision of others. Holloran says that the hotel isn’t a good place and asks Danny to stay away from room 217.
However…
Nadiika Gerbish. Warm Stories For Coffee (2012)
Warm stories are exactly what we need in autumn. These short stories are all about people. A variety of people – happy and sad, familiar and strangers, ordinary and extraordinary, passers-by and those we see every day. Each story is a kind of a sketch with a beautiful headline which really makes us warmer.