Works by
R. A. Lafferty
(aka Raphael Aloysius Lafferty)
(Writer)
[1914 - 2002]

Collections

• Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)

• And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire and Other Science Fiction Stories (1972)

• Strange Doings (1972)

• Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? (1974)

• In the Wake of Man: A Science Fiction Triad (1975) with Gene Wolfe, Walter Moudy

• Funnyfingers & Cabrito (1976)

• Four Stories (1983)

• Golden Gate and Other Stories (1983)

• Heart of Stone: Dear and Other Stories (1983)

• Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories (1983)

• Through Elegant Eyes Stories of Austro and Men Who Know Know Everything (1983)

• Ringing Changes (1984)

• The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories (1984)

• Slippery and Other Stories (1985)

• The Early Lafferty (1988)

• The Early Lafferty II (1990)

• Lafferty in Orbit (1991)

• Iron Tears: Fifteen Stories (1992)

• Space Chanty / Pity About Earth (1958) with Ernest Hill

• Fourth Mansions (1966) with Leo & Diane Dillon, Illustrators

• Past Master (1968)
  The golden planet of Astrobe, made in the image of Utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy it forever; and yet, no one could understand it: In a world where wealth and comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert the golden cities for the slums of Cathead and the Barrio? Why did they turn away from the Astrobe dream and seek lives of bone-crushing work, squalor and disease? The rulers of Astrobe didn't know, so they sought in mankind's past for a leader who could give them the answers. They brought to life the one man out of history who would most want to destroy Astrobe!

• The Reefs of Earth (1968)

• Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine as Conveyed to R. A. Lafferty (1971)

• Not to Mention Camels: A Wild Trip Through Time and Space (1976)
  R. A. Lafferty has created three memorable creatures in Pilger Tisman, Pilgrim Dusmano, and Polder Dossman. Pilger is a protean figure of phantasmagoric qualities; Pilgrim’s fragmented existence lies in thousands of minds besides his own; Polder is eidolon-man and cult-figure, hypnotic, electric, magnetic, transcendent.
  
  They are all world-jumpers in a meta-cosmosic universe. What hellish worlds they jump to—Hieronymus Bosch landscapes that thrive on anti-matter, anti-space, anti-time. What mind-and-body-searing challenges they are confronted with. For Pilger, Pilgrim, and Polder are one man.
  
  This strange and curious novel, laced with superb similes and mind-blowing metaphors, offers cascading prose that echoes and re-echoes long after you put it down. It ranks among Lafferty’s finest works.

• Aurelia (1983)

• The Annals of Klepsis (1983)

• Serpent's Egg (1987)

• East of Laughter (1988)

• Sinbad: The Thirteenth Voyage (1989)
  As Harun lay dying here on Kentauron Mikron, all untimely still in his golden youth, he whispered a word to me that he would use if he were born again. It is the meaningless but numerologically magic word "Bangdad." It has since become the name of one of those mirage cities, one of those cloud cities, that travelers sometimes report seeing. I have learned today that its meaning in Old Kentauron is "The Last City Built by Magic."

• Dotty (1990)

• The Elliptical Grave (1989)

• When All the World Was Young (unpublished)

The Devil is Dead Trilogy

1. Archipelago (1979)

2. The Devil is Dead (Date?)

More Than Melchisedech (1984)

1. Tales of Chicago (1992)

2. Tales of Midnight (1992)

3. Episodes of the Argo (Date?)

• How Many Miles to Babylon? (Date?)

• Apocalypses (1977)

• Ishmael into the Barrens (1971)
  See Four Futures (1976), Isaac Asimov, ed.
  (Includes Ishmael Into the Barrens) by R. A. Lafferty and works by Alexei Panshin, Harry Harrison, and Robert Silverberg)

• The Phoenix (Date?)

• Okla Hannali (1972)
  He was a farmer, a blacksmith, a boatbuilder, a ferryman, a distiller, a tanner, and teh founder of an estate that was a town. He waited a long time to get married, but, when he did, he married three women of three different races on three successive days. He was a civilized man who sometimes painted his face and body and whooped and hollered with the loudest of them. And when he was in his nineties and he decided it was time to die, he greeted that event with the same Choctaw chuckle that had had borne him through life.

• Horns On Their Heads (1976)

• Promontory Goats (1988)

• Strange Skies (1988)

• The Back Door of History (1988)

• True Believers (1988)

• Mischief Malicious (1991)

• An R.A. Lafferty Checklist (1983) by Chris Drumm
  A bibliographical chronology with notes and index

• Cranky Old Man From Tulsa: Interviews with R.A. Lafferty (1990)