What works comprise Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter?
There are three short novels in the 1939 collection by Katherine Anne Porter:
1. “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
2. “Noon Wine”
3. “Old Mortality”
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