- types of stories
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- 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
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Types of Stories
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