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