Nine Stories: "The Laughing Man" by J.D. Salinger

The narrator of this story recalls his time with a scout-like group led by a charismatic law student who spins a serial yarn about a mysterious figure called the Laughing Man.

Here are links to our lists for other short stories in Nine Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish,
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esmé–with Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, Teddy

Here is a link to our lists for J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.