NOVELS 

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• Annals of Klepsis

• Antonino Vescovo

• Archipelago 

• Arrive at Easterwine

• Aurelia

• Civil Blood

• Dark Shine

• The Devil Is Dead

• Dotty

• East of Laughter

• The Elliptical Grave

• Esteban

• Fair Hills of Ocean, Oh!

• The Fall of Rome

• First and Last Island

• The Flame Is Green

• Fourth Mansions

• Half a Sky

• In a Green Tree

• Iron Tongue of Midnight

• Loup Garou

• Mantis

• More Than Melchisedech

• Not to Mention Camels

• Okla Hannali

• Past Master

• The Reefs of Earth

• Sardinian Summer

• Serpent's Egg

• Sindbad, The Thirteenth Voyage

• Space Chantey

• The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny

• When All the World Was Young

• Where Have You Been, Sandaliotis?

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STORIES AND NOVELLAS 

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• "The 99th Cubicle"

• "About a Secret Crocodile + Memoir"

• "Adam Had Three Brothers"

• "Ahoy the Whale!"

• "All But the Words"

• "All Hollow Though You Be"

• "All Pieces of a River Shore"

• "All the People"

• "The All-at-Once Man"

• "The All-Star Series"

• "Almost Perfect"

• "Along the San Pennatus Fault"

• "Aloys"

• "Among the Hairy Earthmen"

• "Anamnesis"

• "And All the Skies Are Full of Fish"

• "And Mad Undancing Bears"

• "And Name My Name"

• "And Read the Flesh Between the Lines"

• "And Some in Velvet Gowns"

• "And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire"

• "And What Big Tears the Dinosaur's"

• "And You Did Not Wail"

• "Animal Fair"

• "Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night of Count Finnegan on Galveston Island, Unaccountably Omitted from The Devil Is Dead"

• "Argo"

• "Assault on Fat Mountain"

• "Bank and Shoal of Time"

• "Barnaby's Clock"

• "Beautiful Dreamer"

• "Been a Long Long Time"

• "Bequest of Wings"

• "Berryhill"

• "Bird-Master"

• "Blood off a Knife"

• "Boomer Flats"

• "Brain Fever Season"

• "Bridlegoose"

• "Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream"

• "Bright Flightways"

• "Bubbles When They Burst"

• "Buckets Full of Brains"

• "By the Sea Shore"

• "Cabrito"

• "Calamities of the Last Pauper"

• "Camels and Dromedaries, Clem"

• "The Casey Machine"

• "Chombo"

• "Claudius and Charles"

• "The Cliff Climbers"

• "Cliffs That Laughed"

• "Club Mentiros"

• "Communion of Saints"

• "Company in the Wings"

• "Condillac's Statue"

• "Condition Quick: A Dialog for Two Dia-Persons"

• "Configuration of the North Shore"

• "Continued on Next Rock"

• "Crocodile"

• "Day of the Glacier"

• "Days of Grass, Days of Straw"

• "Dig a Crooked Hole"

• "The Doggone Highly Scientific Door"

• "Dorg"

• "Dream World"

• "The Effigy Histories"

• "The Emperor's Shoestrings"

• "The End of Outward"

• "End of the Line"

• "Endangered Species"

• "Enfants Terribles"

• "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite"

• "Episodes of the Argo"

• "Eurema's Dam"

• "Ewe Lamb"

• "Faith Sufficient"

• "Fall of Pebble-Stones"

• "Fish-Hooks of Hesebon"

• "Flaming Arrow"

• "Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread"

• "Fog in My Throat"

• "For All Poor Folks at Picketwire"

• "The Forty-Seventh Island"

• "Frog on the Mountain"

• "From the Thunder-Colt's Mouth"

• "The Funny Face Murders"

• "Funnyfingers"

• "Get off the World"How Many Miles to Babylon

• "The Ghost in the Corn Crib"

• "Ginny Wrapped in the Sun"

• "Girl of the Month"

• "Give It Back"

• "Golden Gate"

• "Golden Trabant"

• "Goldfish"

• "Gray Ghost: A Reminiscence"

• "Great Day in the Morning"

• "Great Green Goat"

• "Great Tom Fool"

• "Groaning Hinges of the World"

• "Guesting Time"

• "Hand of the Potter: An Idyll"

• "The Hand With One Hundred Fingers"

• "Handful of Fire"

• "Hands of the Man"

• "A Happening in Chosky Bottoms"

• "Haruspex"

• "Heart Grow Fonder"

• "Heart of Stone, Dear"

• "The Hellaceous Rocket of Harry O'Donovan"

• "Hog-Belly Honey"

• "Hole on the Corner"

• "Holy Woman"

• "Hooligs"

• "Horns on Their Heads"

• "Hound Dog's Ear"

• "How Many Miles to Babylon"

• "How They Gave It Back"

• "I Don't Care Who Keeps the Cows"

• "I Don't Like You"

• "I'll See It Done and Then I'll Die"

• "Ifrit"

• "In Deepest Glass: An Informal History of Stained Glass Windows"

• "In Our Block"

• "In Outraged Stone"

• "In the Garden"

• "In the Turpentine Trees"

• "Incased in Ancient Rind"

• "Interglossia to The Devil Is Dead"

• "Interurban Queen"

• "Inventions Bright and New"

• "Ishmael Into the Barrens"

• "Jack Bang's Eyes"

• "John Salt"

• "Johnny Crookedhouse"

• "Junkyard Thoughts"

• "L'Avare"

• "Land of the Great Horses + Afterword"

• "The Last Astronomer"

• "Last Laugh"

• "Le Hot Sport"

• "Live It Again"

• "Long Teeth"

• "Lord Torpedo, Lord Gyroscope"

• "Love Affair with Ten Thousand Springs"

• "Mad Man"

• "Magazine Section"

• "Make Sure the Eyes Are Big Enough"

• "Maleficent Morning"

• "The Man Underneath"

• "The Man Who Lost His Magic"

• "The Man Who Made Models"

• "The Man Who Never Was"

• "The Man Who Walked Through Cracks"

• "The Man With the Speckled Eye"

• "Marsilia V"

• "Maybe Jones and the City"

• "McGonigal's Worm"

• "McGruder's Marvels"

• "Milly"

• "The Most Forgettable Story in the World"

• "Mr. Hamadryad"

• "Mud Violet"

• "Name of the Snake"

• "Narrow Valley"

• "New People"

• "Nine Hundred Grandmothers"

• "Nor Limestone Islands"

• "Nostos"

• "Of Laughter and the Love of Friends"

• "Oh Happy Double-Jointed Tongues! by Maj. Audifax O'Hanlon (Unretired)"

• "Oh Tell Me Will It Freeze Tonight"

• "Oh Those Trepidatious Eyes!"

• "Oh Whatta You Do When the Well Runs Dry?"

• "Old Foot Forgot"

• "Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes"

• "Once on Aranea"

• "One at a Time"

• "One Minute Before"

• "One-Eyed Mocking-Bird"

• "The Only Tune That He Could Play"

• "Or Little Ducks Each Day"

• "Other Kind of Animal"

• "The Other Side of the Moon"

• "Out of the Molasses Trap"

• "Pamponia"

• "Pani Planet"

• "Panic Flight"

• "Parthen"

• "Phoenic'"

• "Pig in a Pokey"

• "Pine Castle"

• "Pleasures and Palaces"

• "The Polite People of Pudibundia"

• "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi"

• "Posterior Analytics"

• "Primary Education of the Camiroi"

• "Promontory Goats"

• "Puddle on the Floor"

• "Quiz Ship Loose"

• "Rain Mountain"

• "Rainbird"

• "Rainy Day in Halicarnassus"

• "Rang Dang Kaloof"

• "Red-Headed Future"

• "Ride a Tin Can"

• "Rivers of Damascus"

• "The Rod and the Ring"

• "Royal Licorice"

• "Saturday You Die"

• "The Saving Grace"

• "Scorner's Seat"

• "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies"

• "Seven-Day Terror"

• "Seven-Story Dream"

• "Seven Talents"

• "Sex and Sorcery"

• "The Shape We're In"

• "Six Fingers of Time"

• "Six Leagues from Lop"

• "The Skinny People of Leptophlebo Street"

• "Sky"

• "Slippery"

• "Slow Tuesday Night"

• "Smoe and the Implicit Clay"

• "Snake Cabin"

• "Snake in His Bosom"

• "Snuffles"

• "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas"

• "Something Rich and Strange"

• "A Special Condition in Summit City"

• "Splinters"

• "Square and above Board"

• "St. Poleander's Eve"

• "The Story of Little Briar Rose: A Scholarly Study"

• "Symposium"

• "T.F. 58 1/2"

• "Teresa"

• "There'll Always Be Another Me"

• "Thieving Bear Planet"

• "This Boding Itch"

• "This Grand Carcass Yet"

• "Thou Whited Wall"

• "Thousand-Dollar Melon"

• "Three for a Quarrel"

• "Three Men in the Morning"

• "Three Shadows of the Wolf"

• "Through Other Eyes"

• "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"

• "Tom O'Shanty's Aura"

• "Tongues of the Matagorda"

• "The Transcendent Tigers"

• "Try to Remember"

• "Two for Four Ninety-Nine"

• "The Two-Headed Lion of Cris Benedetti"

• "The Ugly Sea"

• "The Ultimate Creature"

• "The Ungodly Mice of Doctor Drakos"

• "Thou Whited Wall"

• "Unique Adventure Gone"

• "The Vanquished"

• "Vestige"

• "The Wagons"

• "The Weirdest World"

• "What's the Name of That Town?"

• "What Big Tears the Dinosaur's"

• "When All the Lands Pour Out Again"

• "Whittle Come Back"

• "The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen"

• "World Abounding"

• "The World as Will and Wallpaper"

• "You Can't Go Back"

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COLLECTIONS

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• Apocalypses

• Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? 

• The Early Lafferty

• The Early Lafferty II

• Episodes of the Argo

• Four Stories

• Funnyfingers and Cabrito

• Glad Rags and Rimes

• Golden Gate and Other Stories

• Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories

• Iron Tears

• It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs and Other Essays

• Lafferty in Orbit

• Laughing Kelly and Other Poems

• The Man Underneath: Stories out of the ‘Ocean’ Called Modernly the Subconscious, on the Theme of Fun in Fiction

• The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories

• Mischief Malicious and Murder Most Strange

• Nine Hundred Grandmothers 

• Ringing Changes

• Six Fingers of Time

• Slippery and Other Stories

• Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories

• Strange Doings

• Strange Skies

• The Stranger from Beyond the Sky

• Through Elegant Eyes

• True Believers

 

ESSAYS

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• "The Case of the Moth-Eaten Magician"

• "The Day After the World Ended"

• "An Essay Explaining the Alternate Endings of the Book Argo"

• "For a Little Bit of Gold"

• "The Gathering of the Tribes"

• "Great Awkward Gold"

• "How Dinosaurs Did It"

• "It's down the Slippery Cellar Stairs"

• "Juvenalia"

• "A Letter"

• "Memoir of Retrospective If"

• "More Tedious Than Dragons"

• "More Worlds Than One"

• "Notes from the Golden Age"

• "On the Joys and Trials"

• "Poor Man's Guide to Hell"

• "Rare Earths and Pig-Weeds"

• "Riddle-Writers of the Isthmus"

• "Rogue Raft"

• "The Roots of Folklore"

• "Science Fiction Is a Three-Headed Dog"

• "The Shape of the Science Fiction Story (A Scholarly Study)"

• "Something New Under the Black Suns"

• "Statement of Incomplete Disavowal by One of the Authors"

• "Tell It Funny, Og"

• "The Ten Thousand Masks of the World"

• "That Moon Plaque"

• "Through the Red Fire or The Hidden Truths About Story-Tellers Dredged Up from the Unconscious of One of Them"

• "Tolkien as Christian?"

• "True Believers"

• "The Twenty-Ninth Joke: A List of Great Punch Lines"

• "The World's Narration"

 

REVIEWED WORKS

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• Again Dangerous Visions

• Asterix et Cleopatre

• Beyond Control

• The Gods Themselves

• The Last Western

• Musram

• Mysteries of Time and Space

• Sioux Trail

• Some Things Dark and Dangerous

• Tales of the Natural and Supernatural

• The White House Transcripts

 

POETRY

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• "All in the Boundless Ocean"

• "Ancient Sorceries"

• "And All Good Folks May Eat Their Fill"

• "And Never Grow Old"

• "At the Sign of the Golden Apple"

• "Ballad for a Desperate Cause"

• "The Cave Full of Sunshine"

• "Couplets"

• "Early Death and Burial"

• "For Dollar Live and Dead"

• "From Alpha World of Kaptein's Star"

• "A Giant’s Born to Us Today"

• "I Have a Pair of Leather Wings"

• "Internal Doctor Harvey Lee"

• "It Worked with People"

• "Laughing Kelly"

• "Libelous Limericks"

• "Little Willy Verses"

• "A Man Named Willy Walked Through Walls"

• "Medical Malpractice Medley"

• "More Couplets"

• "My Big Red Heart"

• "No Stone Unthrown and Son of No Stone Unthrown"

• "Oh Bloody Planks of Tyburn Prison"

• "Oh Paint Me Bright with Oily Paint"

• "Oh Vote for State Question One Million and One"

• "One Frozen Moment"

• "Rose Ruby"

• "A Scholarly Appraisal of Science Fiction in Late 1977"

• "Someone, Oh! Someone, Has Burned My House Down"

• "A Song from the Traitors of Tarshish"

• "Song of the Wild Onions"

• "Sonnet to a Red-Haired Lady"

• "Spanish Nights"

• "Still More Couplets"

• "Strange-Skies Verses"

• "The Stranger from Beyond the Sky"

• "A Stringless-Fiddle Notion"

• "Sylvester"

• "Tale of a Tail"

• "Thing of Else Five Heads or Three"

• "True Believers"

• "Unregimented Hours"

• "Vogelsprachekund (Translations)"

• "Werewolf's Rite of Passage"

• "When the Music Breaks"

• "Xmas Card Verses"

• "Zap-the-Writer Crackers and Other Cruelties"

 

INTERVIEWS

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• "An Interview with R.A. Lafferty"

• "The Cranky Old Man from Tulsa"

• "Oklahoma Authors"

• "R.A. Lafferty: An Interview"

• "A Window on R.A. Lafferty"

 

FRAGMENTS 

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• "And Fungo Wood and Crackerjacks"

• "And Seven Scenes from Sheol"

• "As a Serpent's Egg"

• "Chiromancy Story"

• "Dynamized Today"

• "The Eight Minds of Doctor Caper"

• "The End of the End"

• "The Fishhooks of Hesebon"

• "Good Creatures, But So Slow"

• "Green River Cave"

• "Hell to Pay"

• "In the Akrokeraunian Mountains"

• "L.H."

• "No Valid Characters in S.F."

• "Purgatorio"

• "Quest and Question"

• "Reach Out, Reach Out!"

• "The Shape of the Shapeless, Oh!"

• "Sommerville"

• "Spongetown"

• "The Square Hills of Quintana Roo"

• "Symposium Two"

• "These Hopeful Treasons"

• "Told as Twilight Fails"

 

COLLABORATIONS

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• "Dutch Master"

• "Great Ratchet of Sumatra"

• "Haunter of Moons"

• "Traitors of Tarshish"  

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