World’s Shortest Horror Story!

Shubham Wavhal
The Shortform
Published in
Dec 31, 2022
Photo by Andy Li on Unsplash

The World’s Shortest Horror Story consists of only two sentences which were written & published by Frediric Brown in the year 1948.

It reads : “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…..."

This Story was titled “Knock” and was first printed in Thrilling Wonder Stories in December 1948.

“Knock” was reprinted in 1949 for the Best Science Fiction Stories.

The story won the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award in the year 2012.

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