October 2016 favorites

October 2016

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Eisenheim The Illusionist’ by Steven Millhauser
2. ‘The Red-Headed League’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
3. ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ by Washington Irving
4. ‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier
5. ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. ‘Spunk’ by Zora Neale Hurston
7. ‘The Other Place’ by Mary Gaitskill
8. ‘A Short Trip Home’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. ‘The Five Orange Pips’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. ‘The Baby-Sitter’ by Jane Yolen
11. ‘The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
12. ‘The Adventure Of Abbey Grange’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
13. ‘Unhappiness’ by Franz Kafka
14. ‘The Ledge’ by Stephen King
15. ‘Descent Into The Maelstrom’ by Edgar Allan Poe

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