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‘Strange Moonlight’ by Conrad Aiken

Strange Moonlight by Conrad Aiken, 1925 Continue reading →

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March 2022 favorites

March 2022

The March stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Foaling Season’ by Aryn Kyle
  2. ‘Something That Needs Nothing’ by Miranda July
  3. ‘The Mountain Day’ by Jean Stafford
  4. ‘Blackie’ by Elizabeth Spencer
  5. ‘Tiny In The Wilderness’ by Tom Drury
  6. ‘Mrs. Box’ by Michael Chabon
  7. ‘Small Avalanches’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  8. ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineaux’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  9. ‘Jacklighting’ by Ann Beattie
  10. ‘The Prospectors’ by Karen Russell
  11. ‘A Wagner Matinée’ by Willa Cather
  12. ‘Nest Egg’ by Jesse Stuart
  13. ‘On The Oregon Trail’ by Caitlin Horrocks
  14. ‘The Sentimentality Of William Tavener’ by Willa Cather
  15. ‘Snakebite’ by Arthur Bradford
  16. ‘Impulse’ by Conrad Aiken
  17. ‘Residents And Transients’ by Bobbie Ann Mason
  18. ‘Giving Blood’ by John Updike
  19. ‘Rain On Tanyard Hollow’ by Jesse Stuart

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October 2015 favorites

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October 2015

The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

  1. ‘Don’t Look Now’ by Daphne du Maurier
  2. ‘Leiningen Versus The Ants’ by Carl Stephenson
  3. ‘The Cask Of Amontillado’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  4. ‘Strawberry Spring’ by Stephen King
  5. ‘The Masque Of The Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. ‘Miriam’ by Truman Capote
  7. ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ by W.W. Jacobs
  8. ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ by Joyce Carol Oates
  9. ‘In The Red Room’ by Paul Bowles
  10. ‘The Lawnmower Man’ by Stephen King
  11. ‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  12. ‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’ by Conrad Aiken
  13. ‘Becky’ by Jean Toomer
  14. ‘The Fall Of The House Of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  15. ‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury
  16. ‘The Pit And The Pendulum’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  17. ‘The Use Of Force’ by William Carlos Williams
  18. ‘1408’ by Stephen King
  19. ‘Down To A Sunless Sea’ by Neil Gaiman
  20. ‘Hop-Frog’ by Edgar Allan Poe
  21. ‘The Boogeyman’ by Stephen King
  22. ‘Here There Be Tygers’ by Stephen King
  23. ‘The Hedgehog’ by Saki

 

 

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