R. A. Lafferty:

Selected Chronology

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WIP

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1959

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• The Wagons

 

1960

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• "Adam Had Three Brothers"

• 'Beautiful Dreamer"

• "Day of the Glacier"

• "Long Teeth"

• "McGonigal's Worm"

• "Other Side of the Moon"

• "Saturday You Die"

• "Snuffles"

• "The Six Fingers of Time"

• "Through Other Eyes"

• "Try to Remember"

 

1961

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• "All the People"

• "Aloys"

• "In the Garden"

• "Rainbird"

• "The Polite People of Pudibundia'

• "The Ugly Sea"

• "The Weirdest World"

 

1962

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• "Dream'"

• "Seven-Day Terror"

• "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas"

 

1964

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• "Mad Man"

• "Name of the Snake"

• "Pig in a Pokey"

• "The Man with the Speckled Eyes"

• "The Transcendent Tigers"

• "What's the Name of That Town?"

 

1965

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• "Guesting Time"

• "Hog-Belly Honey"

• "In Our Block"

• "Slow Tuesday Night"

• "The Pani Planet"

 

1966

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• "Among the Hairy Earthmen"

• "Golden Trabant"

• "Narrow Valley"

• "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" 

• "Primary Education of the Camiroi"

 

1967

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• "Camels and Dromedaries, Clem

• "Ginny Wrapped in the Sun"

• "Land of the Great Horses"

• "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi"

• "The Hole on the Corner"

• "The Man Who Never Was"

• "The Ultimate Creature"

• "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"

 

1968

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• Fourth Mansions

• "How They Gave It Back"

• "Maybe Jones and the City"

• "McGruder's Marvels"

• "One at a Time"

• Past Master

• Space Chantey

• The Reefs of Earth

• "This Grand Carcass" (also variant: "This Grand Carcass Yet")

 

1969

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• "Cliffs That Laughed"

• "Configuration of the North Shore"

• That Moon Plague 

• The Sonnet of Fourteen Bells

 

1970

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• About a Secret Crocodile

• All Pieces of a River Shore

• Been a Long, Long Time

• Condillac's Statue, or Wrens in His Head

• Continued on Next Rock

• Entire and Perfect Chrysolite

• Frog on the Mountain

• Hands of the Man

• Interurban Queen

• Nine Hundred Grandmothers [C]

• Old Foot Forgot

• Review of "Asterix et Cleopatre" by Goscinny, a French Book Published for School Use Only

• Ride a Tin Can

• The All-At-Once Man

• The Cliff Climbers

 

1971

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• All But the Words

• Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

• Boomer Flats

• Bubbles When They Burst

• Enfant Terribles

• Encased in Ancient Rind (also variant: Incased in Ancient Rind)

• Groaning Hinges of the World

• Ishmael Into the Barrens

• Nor Limestone Islands

• Review: Somethings Dark and Dangerous

• Sky

• The Devil Is Dead

• The Fall of Rome

• The Flame Is Green

• The Man Underneath (Short Story - First publication)

• When All the Lands Pour Out Again

• World Abounding

 

1972

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• A Special Condition in Summit City

• And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire

• Dorg

• Eurema's Dam

• Okla Hannali

• Once on Aranea

• Rang Dang Kaloof

• Review: Tales of the Natural and the Supernatural

• Strange Doings [C]

 

1973

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• An Interview with R. A. Lafferty (by Paul Walker)

• Barnaby's Clock

• By the Seashore

• Days of Grass, Days of Straw

• Ghost in the Corn Crib

• In Outraged Stone

• Mud Violet

• Parthen

• Review: Again Dangerous Visions

• Rogue Raft

• Scorner's Seat

• Seven Story Dream

• Symposium

• The Hellaceous Rocket of Harry O'Donovan

• The Two-Headed Lion of Cris Benedetti

• The Ungodly Mice of Doctor Drakos

• The Wooly World of Barnaby Sheen

• The World As Will and Wallpaper

 

1974

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• And Mad Undancing Bears

• And Name My Name

• And Read the Flesh Between the Lines

• Animal Fair

• Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? [C]

• Endangered Species

• Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread

• It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs

• Mr. Hamadryad

• Rivers of Damascus

• Royal Licorice

• The Man with the Aura 

• The Most Forgettable Story in the World

 

1975

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• For All Poor Folks at Picketwire

• From the Thunder Colt's Mouth

• Great Day in the Morning

• Heart Grow Fonder

• How To: It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs

• Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes

• Or Little Ducks Each Day

• Review: Mysteries of Time and Space

• Shape of the S.F. Story

• The Shape of the Science Fiction Story 

• The Skinny People of Leptophlebo Street

• Three Shadows of the Wolf

 

1976

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• Assault on Fat Mountain

• Berryhill

• Fog in My Throat

• Funnyfingers & Cabrito [C]

• Horns on Their Heads [Chapbook] (Consolidated entry)

• Love Affair with Ten Thousand Springs

• Not to Mention Camels

• Oh Tell Me Will It Freeze Tonight (also variant: Oh Tell Me It Will Freeze Tonight)

• Puddle on the Floor

• Smoe and the Implicit Clay

• The Hand with One Hundred Fingers

 

1977

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• Apocalypses 

• Brain Fever Season

• Fall of Pebble-Stones

• No Stone Unthrown

• No Stone Unthrown and Son of No Stone Unthrown

• Oh, Those Trepidatious Eyes!

• The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeney

• Thou Whited Wall

 

1978

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• Bequest of Wings

• Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream

• Bright Flightways

• Quiz Ship Loose

• Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies

• Splinters

• The Man Who Walked Through Cracks 

 

1979

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• Archipelago

• Great Awkward Gold

• More Worlds Than One?

• Rainy Day in Halicarnassus

• Something New Under the Black Suns

• St. Poleander's Eve

• The Day After the World Ended

• The Ten Thousand Masks of the World

• The World's Narration

 

1980

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• Almost Perfect

• And All the Skies Are Full of Fish

• Archipelago (Poem)

• Crocodile

• For a Little Bit of Gold

• From More Than Melchisedech: Verses from an Unpublished Novel

• Lord Torpedo, Lord Gyroscope

• Memoir (About a Secret Crocodile)

• Phoenic' (also variant: Phoenic)

• Rare Earths and Pig-Weeds

• Riddle-Writers of the Isthmus

• The Case of the Moth-Eaten Magician

• The Forty-Seventh Island

• The Funny Face Murders

• The Gathering of the Tribes

• The Only Tune That He Could Play

• The Rod and the Ring

• Through the Red Fire

• True Believers (Essay in The Profession of Science Fiction series)

• True Believers (Prose Statement)

• True Believers (Verse Statement)

 

1981

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• Bank and Shoal of Time

• In Deepest Glass

• New People

• You Can't Go Back

 

1982

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• Aurelia

• Calamities of the Last Pauper (also variant: Calamities of Last Pauper)

• Golden Gate (Short Story - First publication)

• Golden Gate and Other Stories [C]

• Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers

• Ifrit

• Make Sure the Eyes Are Big Enough

• Marsilia V

• One-Eyed Mocking-Bird

• Square and Above Board

• Thieving Bear Planet

• This Boding Itch

• Tongues of the Matagorda

 

1983

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• A Stringless-Fiddle Notion

• All in the Boundless Ocean

• An Interview with R. A. Lafferty (by Darrell Schweitzer)

• Ancient Sorceries

• And You Did Not Wail

• Annals of Klepsis

• Bird-Master

• Company in the Wings

• Faith Sufficient

• Four Stories [C]

• From Alpha World of Kaptein's Star

• Haruspex

• Heart of Stone, Dear (Short Story - First publication)

• Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories [C]

• In the Turpentine Trees

• Internal Doctor Harvey Lee

• Jack Bang's Eyes

• Laughing Kelly

• Laughing Kelly and Other Verses [C]

• Little Willy Verses

• Medical Malpractice Medley

• Pine Castle

• Pleasures and Palaces

• Posterior Analytics

• Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories [C]

• Sylvester

• Tale of a Tail

• The End of Outward

• The Last Astronomer

• Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Knew Everything [C]

• Unique Adventure Gone

• What Big Tears the Dinosaur's

 

1984

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• ... Continuum

• And Some in Velvet Gowns

• Black Holes (Review by Lafferty)

• Cautionary Tales (Review by Lafferty)

• Half a Sky

• Heroic Fantasy (Review by Lafferty)

• I'll See It Done and Then I'll Die

• Introduction (Ringing Changes)

• It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs 

• Of Laughter and the Love of Friends

• Oh Whatta You Do When the Well Runs Dry?

• Ringing Changes [C]

• Science Fiction by the Rivals of H. G. Wells (Review by Lafferty)

• Stardance (Review by Lafferty)

• Strangers from Beyond the Sky

• Tell It Funny, Og

• The Doggone Highly Scientific Door

• The Effigy Histories

• The Fountains of Paradise (Review by Lafferty)

• The Man Who Made Models (Short Story - First publication)

• The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories [C]

• The Ninety-Ninth Cubicle (also variant: 99th Cubicle)

• The Stranger from Beyond the Sky

• The Very Slow Time Machine (Review by Lafferty)

• Two for Four Ninety-Five

 

1985

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• All Hollow Though You Be

• Ewe Lamb

• Flaming-Arrow

• Interview met R. A. Lafferty [

• John Salt

• Magazine Section

• Slippery 

• Slippery and Other Stories [C]

 

1986

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• Along the San Pennatus Fault

• Inventions Bright and New

• Junkyard Thoughts

• Memoir (Nine Hundred Grandmothers)

• Something Rich and Strange

• Unregimented Hours

• What Works for Me: A Retrospective, Part Two (with others)

 

1987

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• Gray Ghost: A Reminiscence

• Serpent's Egg

 

1988

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• East of Laughter

• Le Hot Sport

• More Than Melchisedech (Poem)

• More Than Melchisedech (The Gadarene Swine Song)

• Oh Bloody Planks of Tyburn Prison

• Promontory Goats [Chapbook] (Consolidated entry)

• Rain Mountain

• Six Leagues from Lop

• Strange Skies [C]

• Task Force Fifty-Eight and One Half

• The Back Door of History [C]

• The Early Lafferty [C]

• The Story of Little Briar-Rose, a Scholarly Study

• When All The World Was Young

 

1989

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• How Many Miles to Babylon [Chapbook] (Consolidated entry)

• Review: Sioux Trail

• Review: The Last Western

• Review: The White House Transcripts

• Sindbad: The 13th Voyage

• The Elliptical Grave 

• The Man Who Lost His Magic

• Tolkien as Christian

• True Believers [Nonfiction Book]

 

1990

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• Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night of Count Finnegan on Galveston Island

• Cranky Old Man from Tulsa [Interviews]

• Dotty [Chapbook] (Consolidated entry)

• Episodes of the Argo [C] 

• Holy Woman

• Maleficent Morning

• Maybe They Needed Killing & The Importance of Happiness (by Robert Whitaker Sirignano)

• My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 9 & 10 [Chapbook] (Novel serialization end)

• One Frozen Moment

• The Casey Machine

• The Early Lafferty II [C]

 

1991

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• An Interview with R. A. Lafferty (by Tom Jackson)

• Buckets Full of Brains

• Hound Dog's Ear

• Lafferty in Orbit [C]

• Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) [C]

• Preface (Okla Hannali)

• When the Music Breaks

 

1992

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• Anamnesis [Chapbook] 

• Argo (More Than Melchisedech #3)

• Grasshoppers & Wild Honey, Chapters 1 & 2 [Chapbook]

• Iron Tears [C]

• Tales of Chicago (More Than Melchisedech #1)

• Tales of Midnight (More Than Melchisedech #2)

 

1993

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• Alaric: The Day the World Ended 

 

1994

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• I Don't Care Who Keeps the Cows

 

1995

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• Happening in Chosky Bottoms

 

1996

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• Goldfish

 

1997

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• The Emperor's Shoestrings

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2003

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• There'll Always Be Another Me

 

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2013

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• The Man Who Made Models (The Collected Short Fiction #1) [C]

 

2015

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• R. A. Lafferty's Reply to Alan Dean Foster

• The Man with the Aura (The Collected Short Fiction #2) [C]

 

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2017

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• The Man with the Speckled Eyes (The Collected Short Fiction #4) [C]

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2019

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• How I Wrote 'Continued on Next Rock': An Afterword

• The Best of R. A. Lafferty [C]

• The Man Who Walked Through Cracks (The Collected Short Fiction #5) [C]

 

2021

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• The Man Who Never Was (The Collected Short Fiction #6) [C]

 

2023

• Mad Man (The Collected Short Fiction #7) [C]

 

Post-2023 Note:

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• Volume 8 of The Collected Short Fiction series from Centipede Press is anticipated.