Index of works
Lafferty's bibliography is tangled and often bewildering. At the root of it is his assertion that all his writings are part of one "never-ending story"; though the stories were not written to fit into one consistent timeline, they do interact with each other in often surprising ways.
The following list comprises all of his written works, with the unpublished ones in italics. For further information see the individual story pages, or the Series page for material relating to particular story clusters, such as those about the Institute for Impure Science.
Short Fiction
- 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
- 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
- Dreamworld
- 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 + afterword
- The Forty-Seventh Island
- Frog on the Mountain
- From the Thunder-Colt's Mouth
- The Funny Face Murders
- Funnyfingers
- Get Off the World
- 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 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 & 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
- Rangle 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
- Tales of Chicago
- Tales of Midnight
- T.F. 58 1/2
- 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
- Unique Adventure Gone
- The Vanquished
- Vestige
- The Wagons
- The Weirdest World
- What's the Name of That Town?
- 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
Novels
- Annals of Klepsis
- Antonino Vescovo
- Archipelago (Archipelago Three and Archipelago Eight)
- Arrive at Easterwine
- Aurelia
- Civil Blood
- Dark Shine
- Deep Scars of the Thunder
- 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
- Grass-Hoppers and Wild Honey (chapters 3–10 unpublished)
- Half a Sky
- How Many Miles to Babylon
- Incidents of Travel in Flatland
- Iron Tongue of Midnight
- Loup Garou
- Mantis
- More Than Melchisedech
- My Heart Leaps Up
- Not to Mention Camels
- Okla Hannali
- 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?
Collections
- Among the Hairly Earthmen (Japanese)
- Apocalypses
- The Back Door of History
- Days of Grass, Days of Straw (Dutch) + intros
- Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? + intro
- The Early Lafferty
- The Early Lafferty II
- Episodes of the Argo
- Four Stories
- Funnyfingers & 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 + intros
- An R.A. Lafferty Reader (Japanese)
- Ringing Changes + intros
- Selenium Ghosts + intros
- 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
- 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
Reviews
- 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
Poems
- 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
- An Interview with R.A. Lafferty
- 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
Fragmentary Works
- 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
- 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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