La Cieca is gratified and even mildly humbled to announce that parterre.com garnered over half a million pageviews in the month of October, representing over 30,000 unique visitors. Perhaps even more impressive is a metric called “Average Session Duration,” which is the average time a reader remains on the parterre.com during a single “visit”—nearly 10 minutes! The most popular stories on parterre.com in the past month are listed after the jump.  

1. “What gets me…!”
2. Starry starry night
3. Aged in blood
4. The Friday afternoon news dump in excelsis
5. Veiled threat
6. Lost soul
7. Tosca è a palazzo!
8. Elektral college
9. Out here in the dark
10. Where’s the fire?
11. Nunsense
12. Lounge act
13. Alpha and omega
14. All my Edgardos
15. Est nunquam molestum lupo quot oves exsistant
16. Tisi spell
17. The blind leading the blind
18. Joseph Gordon-Who?
19. Upbeat news
20. For the ladies