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Engin Türkgeldi is one of the young writers of contemporary Turkish storytelling. Türkgeldi's first printed short story book Orada Bir Yerde was published in 2017. Although the book consists of ten different stories, it draws attention with its integrity in terms of language, fiction and content. The fact that the stories it contains develop on the axis of individual characters, events and situations, and have a short and intense narrative, allows to evaluate Orada Bir Yerde in the light of Edgar Allan Poe's single effect theory. The stories in the book have a tight plot that progresses with references to each other. Türkgeldi settles into a fictional universe that he knows and desires, and narrates the extraordinary events and situations experienced by strange, lonely and eccentric individuals in this universe in a very fluent language. The fictional partnerships in the stories are also supported by elements such as atmosphere, time and space. For example, no definite place and time information is given in the stories. Events and situations take place in an indefinite location that is not directly named, either before or after events such as the “War in the North”, “plague” and “transition of the comet”. The uncanny/strange events and characters of the general atmosphere of the stories also reinforce this uncertainty. Another aspect that unites the stories in the book is Türkgeldi's skillful use of the element of tension and curiosity. The feelings of tension and curiosity that start from the first scene of the stories are preserved until the last scene. Although these parallels create a fictional monotony in the stories, it can be said that this is a very attractive and qualified similarity for the reader. This article aims to present the main features of Engin Türkgeldi's storytelling in the context of Poe's single effect theory.