October 2017 favorites

October 2017

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ by Ray Bradbury
2. ‘The Hanging Stranger’ by Philip K. Dick
3. ‘Landfill’ by Joyce Carol Oates
4. ‘Closing Time’ by Neil Gaiman
5. ‘A Resumed Identity’ by Ambrose Bierce
6. ‘St. John’s Eve’ by Nikolai Gogol
7. ‘Man From The South’ by Roald Dahl
8. ‘The Terror’ by Guy de Maupassant
9. ‘The Circular Ruins’ by Jorge Luis Borges
10. ‘One Summer Night’ by Ambrose Bierce
11. ‘A Vine On A House’ by Ambrose Bierce
12. ‘Quitters, Inc.’ by Stephen King
13. ‘The Beggarwoman Of Locarno’ by Heinrich von Kleist
14. ‘The Boarded Window’ by Ambrose Bierce
15. ‘A Baby Tramp’ by Ambrose Bierce
16. ‘The White Maniac – A Doctor’s Tale’ by Mary Fortune

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