Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970) - R. A. Lafferty's first collection of stories. His stories are colorful, rambunctious, often full of odd myths and cultures. He may be an acqured taste, but for those who have done so, these are wonderfully rich and strange.

Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Land of the Great Horses
Ginny Wrapped in the Sun
The Six Fingers of Time
Frog on the Mountain
All the People
Primary Education of the Camiroi
Slow Tuesday Night
Snuffles
Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne
Name of the Snake
Narrow Valley
Policy and Custom of the Camiroi
In Our Block
Hog-Belly Honey
Seven Day Terror
The Hole on the Corner
What's the Name of That Town?
Through Other Eyes
One at a Time
Guesting Time

"Frog on the Mountain" is new to the Ace 1970 paperback. First appearances from 1960 to 1968 - (8) in Galaxy, (5) in IF, (2) in Magazine of F&SF, plus Worlds of Tomorrow, Future SF, Dangerous Visions, Orbit 2, Orbit 4.