Short Story Magic Tricks

October 2021

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘Suspicion’ by Dorothy Sayers
2. ‘Bad Dreams’ by Tessa Hadley
3. ‘Mrs. Charbury At Eltham’ by Max Porter
4. ‘The Man Who Knew How’ by Dorothy Sayers
5. ‘The Flight Of Geese’ by Leslie Norris
6. ‘The Open Window’ by Saki
7. ‘The Lighthouse’ by Agnes Owens
8. ‘Pornography’ by Ian McEwan
9. ‘De Mortuis’ by John Collier
10. ‘The Fountain Plays’ by Dorothy Sayers
11. ‘An Arrow O’er The House’ by Dorothy Sayers
12. ‘Then Later, His Ghost’ by Sarah Hall
13. ‘When The Door Closed, It Was Dark’ by Alison Moore
14. ‘Le Miroir’ by Robert Aickman
15. ‘Dilemma’ by Dorothy Sayers
16. ‘August Heat’ by W.F. Harvey
17. ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen
18. ‘The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal’ by Daniel Defoe
19. ‘The Mystery Of Hunter’s Lodge’ by Agatha Christie
20. ‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf
21. ‘The Crystal Egg’ by H.G. Wells
22. ‘The Lamp’ by Agatha Christie
23. ‘Click-Clack The Rattlebag’ by Neil Gaiman

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