Nine Strange Stories

Nine Strange Stories

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Published: 01-09-1974

Pages: 155

Rating: 3.69

Language: eng

eBook status: Skipped   AudioBook status: Skipped

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Description

Scary stories by D. H. Lawrence, Hortense Calisher, Patricia Highsmith, Brian Aldis, Idris Seabright, Rudyard Kipling, SHirley Jackson, Jack London, and Jorge Luis Borges


1 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
23 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
38 • The Snail-Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith (variant of The Snail Watcher)
49 • Manuscript Found in a Police State • (1972) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
88 • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
95 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
114 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
134 • The Leopard Man's Story • non-genre • (1903) • short story by Jack London
140 • The Garden of Forking Paths • (1971) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)