Editing Short story (section)

=== 1790–1850 ===
Early examples of short stories were published separately between 1790 and 1810, but the first true collections of short stories appeared between 1810 and 1830 in several countries.<ref>''Short Story'' in Jacob E. Safra e.a., ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica'', 15th edition, Micropaedia volume 10, Chicago, 1998.</ref>

The first short stories in the United Kingdom were [[Gothic fiction|gothic tales]] like [[Richard Cumberland (dramatist)|Richard Cumberland]]'s "remarkable narrative", "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791).<ref>Internet Book List: Book Information: Oxford Book of Gothic Tales.</ref> Novelists such as Sir [[Walter Scott]] and [[Charles Dickens]] also wrote influential short stories during this time. Germany soon followed the United Kingdom's example by producing short stories; the first collection of short stories was by [[Heinrich von Kleist]] in 1810 and 1811. In the United States, [[Washington Irving]] was responsible for creating some of the first short stories of American origin, "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" and "[[Rip Van Winkle]]".{{sfn|Hayes|2012|p=70}}

[[Edgar Allan Poe]] became another early American short story writer. His concise technique, deemed the "single effect", has had tremendous influence on the formation of the modern short story.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Azhikode |first=Sukumar |date=1977 |title=The Short Story in Malayalam |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24157289 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=5–22 |issn=0019-5804 |jstor=24157289}}</ref>

Examples include:

* [[France]]
** [[Prosper Mérimée]]
*** [[Mateo Falcone]] (1829)
* [[Germany]]
** [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]
*** "[[The Nutcracker and the Mouse King]]" (1816),
*** "[[The Sandman (short story)|The Sandman]]",
** [[Brothers Grimm]]
*** [[Grimms' Fairy Tales|first volume of collected fairy tales]] (1812)
* [[United States]]
** [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
*** "[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]",
*** "[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]",
*** "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]",
*** "[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]",
*** "[[The Gold Bug]]",
*** "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" – one of the first [[Detective fiction|detective stories]]
*** "[[The Purloined Letter]]" – one of the first detective stories
** [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
*** ''[[Twice-Told Tales]]'' (1837)
**[[John Neal]]
***"Otter-Bag, the Oneida Chief" (1829)
***"David Whicher" (1832)