Synopsis
The son of a family with perpetual financial woes believes he can predict future horse race winners by racing on his rocking horse.
Notes
First published in Harper's Bazaar, July 1926. PDF linked above is scanned directly from Harper's Bazaar.
External Links
Publications (54)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 |
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The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny | Hutchinson | Anthology | 167 |
| 1927 |
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The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny | Charles Scribner's Sons | Anthology | 173 |
| 1934 |
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A Century of Creepy Stories | Hutchinson | Anthology | 513 |
| 1945 | The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny | Hutchinson | Anthology | ||
| July 1947 |
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Travelers in Time, Strange Tales of Man's Journeyings Into the Past and the Future | Doubleday | Anthology | 169 |
| March 1953 |
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Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales | Simon & Schuster | Anthology | 3 |
| July 1953 |
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Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales | Simon & Schuster / SFBC | Anthology | 3 |
| June 1954 |
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Outsiders: Children of Wonder | Permabooks | Anthology | 19 |
| January 1959 |
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The Supernatural in the English Short Story | Bernard Hanison | Anthology | 336 |
| December 1963 |
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A Baker's Dozen of Suspense Stories | Dell | Anthology | 104 |
| 1964 |
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The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 100 |
| 1964 |
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The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 100 |
| June 1966 |
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age | Fawcett Premier | Anthology | 90 |
| 1969 |
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Shapes of the Supernatural | Doubleday | Anthology | 292 |
| February 1969 | The Secret Sharer and Other Great Stories | Mentor / New American Library | Anthology | 62 | |
| 1970 |
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The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny | Pan Books | Anthology | 147 |
| 1970 | The Impact of Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories | Cummings Publishing Company | Anthology | 331 | |
| 1971 |
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The Cracked Looking Glass: Stories of Other Realities | Macmillan | Anthology | 44 |
| 1971 | A Century of Creepy Stories | Books for Libraries Press | Anthology | 513 | |
| June 1971 |
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The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Beagle Boxer | Anthology | 100 |
| October 1971 |
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The Ghost Book | Beagle Books / Ballantine | Anthology | |
| November 1972 |
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The Other Dimension | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 7 |
| December 1972 |
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The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | Fontana | Anthology | 100 |
| 1973 |
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The Supernatural in Fiction | McGraw-Hill | Anthology | 273 |
| February 1973 |
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The Other Dimension | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 7 |
| 1974 |
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Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye | McGraw-Hill | Anthology | 284 |
| 1974 |
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Nine Strange Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 1 |
| September 1974 |
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Nine Strange Stories | Scholastic Book Services | Anthology | 1 |
| 1978 |
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Ten Ghost Stories | Hodder & Stoughton | Anthology | 104 |
| 1978 | Supernatural | John Murray | Anthology | 28 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Book Club Associates | Anthology | 275 | |
| 1981 | The Oxford Book of Short Stories | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 275 | |
| 1983 |
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Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature | Picador | Anthology | 550 |
| April 1984 |
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Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 550 |
| October 1987 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor | Anthology | 541 |
| 1988 |
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Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories | Macmillan | Anthology | 921 |
| August 1988 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor / BOMC | Anthology | 541 |
| 1989 |
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Fictions: Second Edition | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Anthology | 718 |
| 1989 |
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The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 771 |
| March 1989 | The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | 771 | |
| 1990 |
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The Masque of the Red Death and Other Stories | Viking Kestrel | Anthology | 93 |
| November 1990 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 278 |
| November 1990 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 278 |
| 1991 |
|
The Medusa in the Shield | Grafton | Anthology | 455 |
| November 1991 |
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The Medusa in the Shield | Tor | Anthology | 374 |
| 1994 |
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Creepy Stories: A Classic Collection | Bracken Books | Anthology | 312 |
| February 1997 |
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The Dark Descent | Tor | Anthology | 541 |
| 2004 |
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The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Anthology | 769 |
| August 2009 | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of D. H. Lawrence | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | ||
| August 2009 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of D. H. Lawrence | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| 2011 |
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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction | Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 525 |
| August 2015 |
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Chilling Horror | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | 270 |
| November 2016 |
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Chilling Horror | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |270 |
| January 2022 | Pseudopod, #792 | Escape Artists, Inc. | MAGAZINE |