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Unfortunately I mostly read genre fiction, and that extends to short stories. Don't know if most of this is what you'd be looking for, genre-wise, but I enjoyed these a lot. 

  • Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
  • Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  • Unnatural Creatures (edited by Gaiman, stories by various authors)
  • 60 Stories by Donald Barthlme (very post-modern, be warned)
  • The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
  • The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
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Saki wrote a whole book or two of excellent short stories,

most of which I believe are now out of copyright and are

available on Project Gutenberg and similar sites?

Available on Amazon cheap as chips.

I absolutely love short story collections! I'm currently reading A. M. Homes 'The Safety of Objects' and have loved authors like Angela Readman and Diane Cook.

 

Can anyone recommend any more quirky short story collections?

William Trevor.

Absolutely brilliant short story collection.

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Seconding the Gaiman recommendations! For a long time, they really outstripped his novels in quality (imo, those have only caught up recently with such eerie and rather short entries as Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane).

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