What are the scariest short stories?

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Given the season, I thought I'd ask.

It's not conventional horror, but for me 'Where you going' Where you been?' by Joyce Carol Oates is the story to beat, and I've read a lot of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Shirley Jackson, and others.

That story builds tension in a way that I haven't really experienced from The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, or King short stories.

In case you've never read it:

https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/WhereAreYouGoing.htm

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