October 2019 favorites

October 2019

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Death Of Halpin Frayser’ by Ambrose Bierce
2. ‘Rip Van Winkle’ by Washington Irving
3. ‘Heat’ by Joyce Carol Oates
4. ‘On The Hill’ by Elizabeth Spencer
5. ‘In The Region Of Ice’ by Joyce Carol Oates
6. ‘Ghost Girls’ by Joyce Carol Oates
7. ‘The Heroine’ by Patricia Highsmith
8. ‘High Lonesome’ by Joyce Carol Oates
9. ‘The Nine Billion Names Of God’ by Arthur C. Clarke
10. ‘The Swimmers’ by Joyce Carol Oates
11. ‘The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor’ by Agatha Christie
12. ‘Three Is A Lucky Number’ by Margery Allingham
13. ‘La Moretta’ by Maggie Shipstead
14. ‘The Doll’s Ghost’ by F. Marion Crawford
15. ‘Afterward’ by Edith Wharton
16. ‘The Leather Funnel’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

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