Types of Stories


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