Leptophlebia marginata Oh I knew a Doctor Gluck, And his nose it had a hook, And his attitudes were anything but Aryan; So I gave him...

A rant today. I’m glad Centipede Press has for years been publishing Lafferty in handsome volumes. It’s nice to have the stories in such...

Drumm Booklet 19 Today, I've been looking at the Lafferty–Gaiman correspondence and thinking about Barnaby Sheen, which led me to think...

My heart leaps up when I behold      A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall...

David Jones, "Building of the Ark" In his review of The Man Who Never Was , Paul Di Filippo compared “Quiz Ship Loose” to a classic...

The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise, And Christian killeth...

He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced...

Aurelia aurita I’ve been thinking about Aurelia , one of my favorite works by Lafferty, even though much of it continues to puzzle me....

Prompted by a question Chris Merrick asked on East of Laughter , I’ve been cataloguing the changes made when moving Lafferty's short...

And she was into the weave now — pink and pungent — the numinous spook, the cinnamon cookie, the mad anima who had never left off being a...

A light post. Space Chantey  gets pigeonholed as a sci-fi Odyssey , but that one-liner misses what makes it remarkable. On East of...

“Fully retractable, rhodium-plated. Dort glide. Ramsey swivel. And it forms its own carrying case. One dollar,” the man said. “In Our...

Saying these novellas are about consensus reality doesn't say much, so can we do better? Here is my attempt. The Three Armageddons of...

In The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny , consensus reality appears as a centralized construct, and Lafferty’s main concern is the...

"There's a kind of group amnesia that blocks out the details. But it didn’t end in Armageddon." I have pet theories about how Lafferty...

Earlier today, I shared some thoughts on how Jung’s Aion  influenced Lafferty’s Past Master . I must confess I’m no admirer of Jung, and...

The Leviathan, by Charles Dufresne (1876-1938) “Devil, Devil, come in hate! Take the fine Evita bait!” the wild-girl chanted, but her...

It seemed, until I thought of it a bit, that I had written quite a few novels, and many shorter works, and also verses and scraps. Now I...

"Bubbly, mighty bubbly, Miss Aster," Dr. Izzersted said. "Do you know that some days are very good for blowing soap bubbles (I blow a lot...