Story Types


 * adventure story
 * allegory
 * apologue
 * autobiography
 * beast epic
 * beast fable
 * bedtime story
 * biography
 * chiller or chiller-diller
 * chivalric romance
 * classical detective story
 * conte
 * crime story
 * detective story or detective yarn
 * dime novel or penny dreadful
 * drama
 * epic or epos
 * exemplum or didactic tale or moral tale
 * fable
 * fabliau
 * fairy tale or fairy story
 * fantasy
 * fish story
 * folktale or folk story
 * gest or geste
 * ghost story
 * hard-boiled detective story or tough-tec story
 * hero tale or heroic tale
 * horror story
 * lai
 * legend
 * long-short story
 * love story
 * Märchen
 * Milesian tale
 * mystery or mystery story
 * myth or mythos
 * narrative
 * novel
 * nursery tale
 * parable
 * penny dreadful
 * romance
 * romantic adventure
 * running story
 * saga
 * saint's legend
 * science fiction story or sci-fi story
 * short short story or short-short
 * short story
 * sketch
 * solar myth
 * spy story
 * supernatural tale
 * suspense story
 * thriller or thriller-diller
 * vignette
 * Western or Western story or cowboy story
 * whodunit