First published 1970
In Eleven, Patricia Highsmith's unsettling short stories, bizarre characters act on strange, unspoken urges. A man is smothered by countless snails. A child exacts brutal revenge on his mother for cooking his pet turtle. These outlandish and irrational tales plumb the darkest corners of the human psyche, leaving readers profoundly unsettled.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, 20th-century, horror, adult-fiction, psychological-thriller, dark
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-century
169 pages · Paperback · Atlantic Monthly Press
Content warnings: body-horror, gore, graphic-violence