08 Misc Laff: Original Titles

For anyone else who enjoys this sort of thing, here are some of Lafferty’s original titles:

"Pani People" became "Pani Planet."

"Rangle Dang Kaloof" became "Rang Dang Kaloof" on republication

“Glaciation” became “Day of the Glacier”

"Is He a Wreck?" became “Adam Had Three Brothers”

"And There Confuse" became "Special Condition in Summit Street"

"Blood Off a Knife" became "Enfants Terribles"

"Mater Inventorum" became "Eurema’s Dam"

"Saecula Saeculorum" became "Been a Long Long Time"

"The Long Afternoon" became "Among the Hairy Earthmen"

"Fierce Around Us" became "Bubble When They Burst"

"Who Needs You Now" became "Crocodile"

"Tom O’Shanty’s Aura" became "Man With the Aura"

"The Opportunity Machine" became "Anamnesis" became "Multitude in the Wings" became "Company in the Wings"

"Crowded Where They Come From" became “Guesting Time”

"Not in Particular" became "The Effigy Histories"

"Let the Horses Out!" became "Of Laughter and the Love of Friends"

La Sorciere became Mantis

"The Men Who Didn’t Believe in Magic" became "The Man Who Lost His Magic"

Loup Garou was shortened and rewritten as "Three Shadows of the Wolf"

"The Raft" was expanded into Or Altered World, which became The Reefs of Earth

"The Brain Weavers" is a title associated with Fourth Mansions

"Pantofag" was rewritten as "Hog-Belly Honey"

"Sundown on the Roads" became "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"

"The Multitudinous Grandmothers" became "Nine Hundred Grandmothers"

"Of Sundry Men" was a possible title for "Cames & Dromedaries, Clem"

"Needle" became "The Transcendent Tigers"

"Barefaced Dream" became "Dreamworld" in Galaxy and then "Dream" in Strange Doings

"Before It Be Gone" became "Ride a Tin Can"

"Willy Jones Island" became "The Cliffs That Laughed"

"Tell & Gahn" became "This Grand Carcass Yet"

"Teresa" was rewritten as "The Ultimate Creature"