October 2023 favorites

October 2023

The October stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.

1. ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati
2. ‘Behzin Meadow’ by Ivan Turgenev
3. ‘The Yellow Ranch’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
4. ‘Moist House’ by Kate Folk
5. ‘Scenes From The Left Of A Double Monster’ by Vladimir Nabokov
6. ‘Time And Again’ by Breece D’J Pancake
7. ‘A Tree Of Night’ by Truman Capote
8. ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
9. ‘Out There’ by Kate Folk
10. ‘Thrawn Janet’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
11. ‘The Hidden Cause’ by Machado de Assis
12. ‘Blind Girls’ by Jayne Anne Phillips
13. ‘Luvina’ by Juan Rulfo
14. ‘Diary Of A Madman’ by Lu Xun
15. ‘Catskin’ by Kelly Link
16. ‘The Eyes Have It’ by Philip K. Dick
17. ‘Brad Carrigan, American’ by George Saunders
18. ‘Frights’ by Allegra Hyde
19. ‘The Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant
20. ‘The Intruder’ by Nada Alic
21. ‘The Price’ by Neil Gaiman
22. ‘The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross’ by Henry Slesar
23. ‘A Little More Research’ by Joan Hess
24. ‘Death Of A Romance Writer’ by Joan Hess
25. ‘What A Thought’ by Shirley Jackson
26. ‘The Hammer Of God’ by G.K. Chesterton
27. ‘Asleep At The Wheel’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
28. ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ by H.P. Lovecraft
29. ‘The Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan’ by Agatha Christie
30. ‘Man-Size In Marble’ by Edith Nesbit
31. ‘The Temple’ by Joyce Carol Oates

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