October 2021
The October stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Suspicion’ by Dorothy Sayers
- ‘Bad Dreams’ by Tessa Hadley
- ‘Mrs. Charbury At Eltham’ by Max Porter
- ‘The Man Who Knew How’ by Dorothy Sayers
- ‘The Flight Of Geese’ by Leslie Norris
- ‘The Open Window’ by Saki
- ‘The Lighthouse’ by Agnes Owens
- ‘Pornography’ by Ian McEwan
- ‘De Mortuis’ by John Collier
- ‘The Fountain Plays’ by Dorothy Sayers
- ‘An Arrow O’er The House’ by Dorothy Sayers
- ‘Then Later, His Ghost’ by Sarah Hall
- ‘When The Door Closed, It Was Dark’ by Alison Moore
- ‘Le Miroir’ by Robert Aickman
- ‘Dilemma’ by Dorothy Sayers
- ‘August Heat’ by W.F. Harvey
- ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen
- ‘The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal’ by Daniel Defoe
- ‘The Mystery Of Hunter’s Lodge’ by Agatha Christie
- ‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf
- ‘The Crystal Egg’ by H.G. Wells
- ‘The Lamp’ by Agatha Christie
- ‘Click-Clack The Rattlebag’ by Neil Gaiman
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