October 2020 favorites

October 2020

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Sphinx’ by Edgar Allan Poe
2. ‘The Pram’ by Roddy Doyle
3. ‘The Invalid, Or The Bedridden’ by Patricia Highsmith
4. ‘The Female Novelist’ by Patricia Highsmith
5. ‘Stone Mattress’ by Margaret Atwood
6. ‘The Coquette’ by Patricia Highsmith
7. ‘Mark Of Satan’ by Joyce Carol Oates
8. ‘The Adventure Of The German Student’ by Washington Irving
9. ‘You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead’ by Flannery O’Connor
10. ‘Paranoia’ by Shirley Jackson
11. ‘The Hand’ by Patricia Highsmith
12. ‘The Fully Licensed Whore, Or, The Wife’ by Patricia Highsmith
13. ‘The Mirror’ by Haruki Murakami
14. ‘Asleep In Armageddon’ by Ray Bradbury
15. ‘The Middle-Class Housewife’ by Patricia Highsmith
16. ‘The Breeder’ by Patricia Highsmith
17. ‘The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid’ by H.G. Wells
18. ‘The Bold Dragoon, Or The Adventure Of My Grandfather’ by Washington Irving
19. ‘The Annex’ by Amy Hempel
20. ‘The Afterlife’ by Jonathan Lethem

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