October 2026 Book Recaps.
October 2026 Book Recaps: Edgar Allan Poe Stories: 🐦 Every year, I try to squeeze in two or three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe ,( 🔗 ) specifically in October, since he is known as the Master of the Macabre, and Halloween month seems a fitting time to explore his works. Yet, through the years as I’ve made my way through about 40 of his short stories, a couple poems, and his only novel, I’ve discovered an unexpected humorous side to him. A few of his tales had me laughing out loud ( The Spectacles and A Predicament [dark humor], for example.) Obviously after reading so many stories, I am now venturing into territory that’s not quite as well-known as The Fall of the House of Usher , The Tell-Tale Heart , or The Cask of the Amontillado. Here are three of his obscure stories I read this year. X-ing a Paragrab by Edgar Allan Poe is an amusing story about a battle of newspaper editors, which leads to the theft of the letter “o” used in...