| CONTE | A short story (as a literary genre) (5) |
| MICHELDEMONTAIGNE | Writer of the French Renaissance who popularised the essay as a literary genre |
| DRAMA | A literary genre (5) |
| SCIFI | Some terrific stuff's written about a literary genre (3-2) |
| ESSAY | Type of written composition developed as a literary form by Michel de Montaigne (5) |
| PROSE | Ordinary written or spoken language without metrical structure, especially as a literary form (5) |
| ILIAD | It's a classic story as current parliament returns |
| FABLE | Moral story, as written by Aesop (5) |
| ATRUE | Base on _ ___ story, as per movies |
| NIGHT | 1957 Jacques Tourneur film starring Dana Andrews based on a short story by MR James (5,2,3,5) |
| DEMON | 1957 Jacques Tourneur film starring Dana Andrews based on a short story by MR James (5,2,3,5) |
| OFTHE | 1957 Jacques Tourneur film starring Dana Andrews based on a short story by MR James (5,2,3,5) |
| FATAL | 22 film part, introducing a short story a couple of times (5,10) |
| MITTY | The Secret .... .. ...... ....., a short story by James Thurber (4,2,6,5) |
| ZORRO | Which masked swordsman first appeared in a short story in 1919? (5) |
| SHOUT | The ___, 1978 horror film starring Alan Bates based on a short story by Robert Graves (5) |
| USHER | "The Fall of the House of --", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (5) |
| BIRDS | The -; Alfred Hitchcock film, loosely based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier (5) |
| NOVEL | Fictional work that's longer than a short story |
| DEOLI | "The Night Train at _____": a short story by Ruskin Bond |
