num_pages: 155
description: Scary stories by D. H. Lawrence, Hortense Calisher, Patricia Highsmith, Brian Aldis, Idris Seabright, Rudyard Kipling, SHirley Jackson, Jack London, and Jorge Luis Borges1 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence23 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher38 • 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. Aldiss88 • 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 Kipling114 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson134 • The Leopard Man's Story • non-genre • (1903) • short story by Jack London140 • The Garden of Forking Paths • (1971) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)
language: English
title: Nine Strange Stories
titlecomplete: Nine Strange Stories
genres: Horror, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Scholastic