Ursula Le Guin and Shirley Jackson are classics, and great fun too. I loved Agota Kristof's "The Notebook". It's very hard boiled and chilling, kinda like Hamm

Ursula Le Guin and Shirley Jackson are classics, and great fun too. I loved Agota Kristof's "The Notebook". It's very hard boiled and chilling, kinda like Hammett's "The Glass Key" if it was written about children in wartime. The rest of the list I'm not familiar with. I should check some of them out. They definitely should have included Kathrine Taylor's "Address Unknown". It's a very influential short story from 1938, do yourself a favor and read it: http://www.acobas.net/teaching/textbook/address/addressunknown.pdf http://www.acobas.net/teaching/textbook/address/addressunkno...