Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library)"Most good stories are about the interior of our lives, but Katherine Anne Porter's stories take place there," said Eudora Welty. "They show surface only at her choosing." Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize winning author's short novels or long stories, as Porter who didn't hold with the term "novella" called her pieces. In the masterly "Noon Wine," set on a Texas farm circa 1900, she offers an unforgettable study of evil.