The search for the werewolf’s tail in Chapter Six of the unpublished Loup Garou  is unlike anything else. Folksy, hilarious, weird, and drawn out to absurd lengths, it’s one of the strangest episodes in Lafferty, capped by a perfectly ridiculous payoff in a later chapter. It might be his shaggiest shaggy dog. The whole thing starts when the redneck liar Corbey, a "crafty old swindler," comes up with a bit of folklore to show off for the men gathered in Scroggins’s store. A mu

"I don't mean that. You said ‘Being French, you would be superstitious.’ You'd have to be out of your mind to say a thing like that. There can no more be a superstitious Frenchman than there can be dry water or green horses. Think about the implications of that for a long time. Then your little problem will have solved itself." Loup Garou Some truisms: Lafferty wrote about con men, loved the tall tale, and thought a lot about consensus reality. Paul Saka’s recent article on