Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ShortStoryGenreHierarchy

Overall	Genre	Description	Category	Stub template
	Can be used in the text and infobox to describe the short story		Use to categorise the article	Use to mark short and incomplete articles as stubs
General short stories	[[Short story]]	Those that cannot be described by categories below	[[Category:Short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
Specific genres	[[Alternate history]]	Based on alternative views of history	[[Category:Alternate history short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Comedy]]	Based on comedy and humour	[[Category:Comic short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Crime fiction]]	Based on crime stories	[[Category:Crime short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Detective fiction]]	Based on detective type crime stories	[[Category:Detective fiction short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Erotic fiction]]	Based on stories that are erotic	[[Category:Erotic short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Fables]]	Based on stories that are fables	[[Category:Fables]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Fantasy]]	Based on magic, ancient myths and legends	[[Category:Fantasy short stories]]	{{fantasy-story-stub}}
	[[Historical fiction]]	Set among historical events, prior to author	[[Category:Historical short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Horror fiction]]	with Horrific, scary subject matter	[[Category:Horror short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Mystery fiction]]	Subgenre of the crime or detective novel is the whodunit	[[Category:Mystery short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Parables]]	Based on stories that are parables	[[Category:Parables]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Pulp magazine|Pulp]]	Based on plup short stories typically appearing in magazines	[[Category:Pulp stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Science fiction]]	Science advancement, or contact scientifically advanced civilizations	[[Category:Science fiction short stories]]	{{sf-story-stub}}
	[[Speculative fiction]]	Speculation about worlds - alternatives to the normal Sci-Fi,Alt-Hist,Fantasy, Horror have their own sub-genre (categories and stubs)	[[Category:Speculative fiction short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Spy fiction]]	Spying based stories	[[Category:Spy short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]	Fast paced, action packed suspense	[[Category:Thriller short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[War novel|War fiction]]	War based stories	[[Category:War short stories]]	{{story-stub}}
	[[Western fiction]]	Western based stories	[[Category:Western (genre) short stories]]	{{story-stub}}