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‘Dagon’ by H.P. Lovecraft
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, 1919 Continue reading
October 2023 favorites
The October stories ordered solely by my personal tastes.
- ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati
- ‘Behzin Meadow’ by Ivan Turgenev
- ‘The Yellow Ranch’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- ‘Moist House’ by Kate Folk
- ‘Scenes From The Left Of A Double Monster’ by Vladimir Nabokov
- ‘Time And Again’ by Breece D’J Pancake
- ‘A Tree Of Night’ by Truman Capote
- ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ‘Out There’ by Kate Folk
- ‘Thrawn Janet’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
- ‘The Hidden Cause’ by Machado de Assis
- ‘Blind Girls’ by Jayne Anne Phillips
- ‘Luvina’ by Juan Rulfo
- ‘Diary Of A Madman’ by Lu Xun
- ‘Catskin’ by Kelly Link
- ‘The Eyes Have It’ by Philip K. Dick
- ‘Brad Carrigan, American’ by George Saunders
- ‘Frights’ by Allegra Hyde
- ‘The Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant
- ‘The Intruder’ by Nada Alic
- ‘The Price’ by Neil Gaiman
- ‘The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross’ by Henry Slesar
- ‘A Little More Research’ by Joan Hess
- ‘Death Of A Romance Writer’ by Joan Hess
- ‘What A Thought’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘The Hammer Of God’ by G.K. Chesterton
- ‘Asleep At The Wheel’ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ by H.P. Lovecraft
- ‘The Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan’ by Agatha Christie
- ‘Man-Size In Marble’ by Edith Nesbit
- ‘The Temple’ by Joyce Carol Oates
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‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ by H.P. Lovecraft
The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, 1928 Continue reading
November 2022 favorites
November 2022
The November stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Reunion’ by Julie Schumacher
- ‘Caveat Emptor’ by Joan Hess
- ‘Ashes’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘The Wellman Twins’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Chasing Birds’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘Too Much To Bare’ by Joan Hess
- ‘Nebraska’ by Ron Hansen
- ‘Drive’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘That Thing Around Your Neck’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ‘Polaroid’ by Sally Wells
- ‘Peter’ by Willa Cather
- ‘Correspondence’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘Beatrice Trueblood’s Story’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘Murder At Fork Junction’ by Alston Anderson
- ‘I Get By’ by Mary Robison
- ‘Bad Latch’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
- ‘The Haunter Of The Dark’ by H.P. Lovecraft
- ‘This Is My Living Room’ by Tom McAfee
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October 2018 favorites
The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘The Adventure Of The Speckled Band’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
- ‘St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves’ by Karen Russell
- ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl
- ‘Jesse’ by Rosemarie Robotham
- ‘Haunting Olivia’ by Karen Russell
- ‘ZZ’s Sleep-Away Camp For Disordered Dreamers’ by Karen Russell
- ‘Lady Yeti And The Palace Of Artificial Snows’ by Karen Russell
- ‘Sense Of Humor’ by Damon Runyon
- ‘The Music Teacher’ by John Cheever
- ‘Nausea 1979’ by Haruki Murakami
- ‘The Undertaker’ by Alexander Pushkin
- ‘The Colour Out Of Space’ by H.P. Lovecraft
- ‘The Rosary’ by Robert Kelly
- ‘A Haunted House’ by Charles Dickens
- ‘The Man Of Adamant’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ‘Signal’ by John Lanchester
- ‘The Bog Girl’ by Karen Russell
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‘The Colour Out Of Space’ by H.P. Lovecraft
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