Wrong value when inserting into a linked list in c - c

Question

I am trying to insert words into a hash table and it looks like it works but when I try to print the word inside the node (just to check if its still correct) I get a bogus value. When my code prompts for the word I said 'Hey' and when it prompts for place I said '5'. The string that is printed out(which is supposed to be the word inside the node) is HH9[]A\A]A^A_f. What is happening to the word inside the node and am I inserting the node correctly?
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct node
{
char word[20];
struct node *next;
}
node;
int main (void)
{
node* table[10];
char wrd[10];
printf("Word to insert: ");
fgets(wrd, 10, stdin);
int place;
printf("Place to insert word: ");
scanf("%d", &place);
node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));
if(n == NULL)
{
return 1;
}
strcpy(n->word, wrd);
if(table[place] == NULL)
{
n = table[place];
n->next = NULL;
}
else
{
n->next = table[place];
n = table[place];
}
printf("Word inside node: %s \n" , n->word);
}
EDIT
I changed the code and tried to implement it on a larger scale but my while loop gives me a segfault. This is the function I put it in:
FILE* dct = fopen ("/dictionaries/large", "r");
char *wrd = NULL;
while(fscanf(dct, "%s", wrd) != EOF)
{
int place = hash(wrd);
node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));
node *anchor = NULL;
node *end = NULL;
if(n == NULL)
{
return 1;
}
strcpy(n->word, wrd);
n->next = NULL;
if (!end) //Initial state
anchor = end = n;
else //Every following node.
end = end->next = n;
strcpy(n->word, wrd);
n->next = table[place];
table[place] = n;
counter++;
}
return false;
It has to read from the dictionary file and load the word into memory(or a hash table).

Answer 1

A linked list is a linked list because it does not have a fixed size.
The table array is therefor superfluous.
What you need for your linked list to work is to remember the anchor and nothing more.
A small example:
Node *anchor = NULL;
Node *end = NULL;
Node *node = malloc(sizeof(Node));
node->next = NULL;
if (!end) //Initial state
anchor = end = node;
else //Every following node.
end = end->next = node;
At this point, you can still access the node you've just filled. Don't forget to iterate over your list later and free those allocations though.

Answer 2

This code doesn't make any sense:
if(table[place] == NULL)
{
n = table[place]; // since we know table[place] is null, that sets n to null!
n->next = NULL; // We just set n to NULL, we can't access n->next!
}
else
{
n->next = table[place]; // This sets n to a garbage value since table[place] was never assigned a value
n = table[place]; // This leaks the value we malloc'ed. We were supposed to link it to the list!
}