reading words from books

What are some good horror/sci-fi short stories? I just read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," by Harlan Ellison. It was interesting, though unsurprisingly he hates women as much in his fiction as he seems to in real life. Same with Updike and Vonnegut, though I still enjoy a lot of Vonnegut's work (negotiated reading!).

I should go find some good short stories in these genres by female authors, so I'll have much less of a chance of reading about how women are dirty sluts who like to get raped. I've read "The Yellow Wallpaper," the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story, and it was good. I don't think Octavia Butler cared much for short stories, but Le Guin has written them. I'll see what James Tiptree, C.J. Cherryh, and C.L. Moore have written (all women, just under a Moustache de Plume). Kij Johnson, too - I really liked her story about dogs learning to talk, which sounds silly but it moved me more than I thought a story about such a thing would.

I also like Poe. What is some more good horror (or sci-fi) more than a century old? I will see.

I'd also like to read more Lem, Borges, Italo Calvino, and maybe I'll give Lovecraft another try because I still find some of what he's about interesting even though he's a terrible racist (negotiated reading un autre fois!).