October 2023
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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