Bibliography

Novels

Science Fiction

Past Master, 1968, Hugo Award nominee, Nebula Award nominee (amazon)
The Reefs of Earth, 1968 (amazon)
Space Chantey, 1968 (amazon)

R.A. Lafferty, Cactuscon 1987.
Photo by Charles N. Brown ©LSFF
Fourth Mansions, 1969 (amazon)
The Devil is Dead (The Devil is Dead, book 2), 1971, Nebula Award nominee (amazon)
Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine, 1971 (amazon)
Not to Mention Camels, 1976 (amazon)
Archipelago (The Devil is Dead, book 1), 1979 (amazon)
Aurelia, 1982, Phillip K. Dick Award nominee (amazon)
Annals of Klepsis, 1983 (amazon)
Serpent’s Egg, 1987 (amazon)
East of Laughter, 1988 (amazon)
How Many Miles to Babylon?, 1989
Sindbad: The 13th Voyage, 1989 (amazon)
Dotty, 1990
More than Melchisedech (The Devil is Dead, book 3), 1992

Non-fiction

The Fall of Rome, 1971
Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs, 1984
True Believers, 1989
Cranky Old Man from Tulsa, 1990

Other

The Flame is Green (Coscuin Chronicles, book 1), 1971 (amazon)
Okla Hannali (historical fiction), 1972 (university of oklahoma press)
Half a Sky (Coscuin Chronicles, book 2), 1984 (amazon)

Collections

Nine Hundred Grandmothers, 1970 (amazon)
Strange Doings, 1972 (amazon)
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, 1974 (amazon)
Funnyfingers & Cabrito, 1976
Apocalypses, 1977 (amazon)
Golden Gate and Other Stories, 1982 (amazon)
**Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories, **1983 (amazon)
Laughing Kelly and Other Verses (poetry),** **1983 (amazon)
Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories,** **1983 (amazon)
Through Elegant Eyes, 1983
Ringing Changes, 1984
Slippery and Other Stories, 1985
The Early Lafferty, 1988
The Back Door of History, 1988
Strange Skies (poetry*)*, 1988
The Early Lafferty II, 1990
Episodes of the Argo, 1990
Lafferty in Orbit, 1991, World Fantasy Award nominee
Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange), 1991
Iron Tears, 1992, Philip K. Dick Award nominee
The Man Who Made Models - The Collected Short Fiction Volume 1, 2014
The Man With the Aura - The Collected Short Fiction Volume 2, 2015
The Man Underneath - The Collected Short Fiction Volume 3, 2015
**The R.A. Lafferty Fantastic MEGAPACK, **2016 (amazon)
The Man With the Speckled Eyes - The Collected Short Fiction Volume 4, 2017

Selected Short Fiction - click to read

Short Fiction

Adam Had Three Brothers, 1960
Saturday You Die, 1960
The Ugly Sea, 1960
Day of the Glacier, 1960
Other Side of the Moon, 1960
Long Teeth, 1960
Beautiful Dreamer, 1960
McGonial’s Worm, 1960
Snuffles, 1960
Try to Remember, 1960
The Polite People of Pudibundia, 1960
In the Garden, 1961
All the People, 1961
Rainbird, 1961
Dream, 1962
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas, 1962
The Transcendent Tigers, 1964
Name of the Snake, 1964
Mad Man, 1964
What’s the Name of That Town?, 1964
Pig in a Pokey, 1964
The Man with the Speckled Eyes, 1964
The Pani Planet, 1965
Slow Tuesday Night, 1965
Guesting Time, 1965
In Our Block, 1965
Hog-Belly Honey, 1965
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, 1966
Golden Trabant, 1966
Among the Hairy Earthmen, 1966
Narrow Valley, 1966
The Man Who Never Was, 1967
The Hole on the Corner, 1967
Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne, 1967
Ginny Wrapped in the Sun, 1967
Camels and Dromedaries, Clem, 1967
Land of the Great Horses, 1967
The Ultimate Creature, 1967
Maybe Jones and the City, 1968
One at a Time, 1968
How They Gave It Back, 1968
McGruder’s Marvels, 1968
This Grand Carcass, 1968
Cliffs That Laughed, 1969
Configuration of the North Shore, 1969
Frog on the Mountain, 1970
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite, 1970
Hands of the Man, 1970
Ride a Tin Can, 1970
Continued on Next Rock, 1970
Old Foot Forgot, 1970
About a Secret Crocodile, 1970
Condillac’s Statue, or Wrens in His Head, 1970
The Cliff Climbers, 1970
All Pieces of a River, 1970
Been a Long, Long Time, 1970
Interurban Queen, 1970
Groaning Hinges of the World, 1971
Nor Limestone Islands, 1971
Sky, 1971
When All the Lands Pour Out Again, 1971
The Man Underneath, 1971
Encased in Ancient Rind, 1971
Enfant Terrible, 1971
All But the Words, 1971
Boomer Flats, 1971
Ishmael Into the Barrens, 1971
Bubbles When They Burst, 1971
World Abounding, 1971
A Special Condition in Summit City, 1972
Eurema’s Dam, 1972
Once on Aranea, 1972
Rang Dang Kaloof, 1972
Dorg, 1972
And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire, 1972
Four Sides of Infinity, 1973
In Outraged Stone, 1973
Rogue Raft, 1973
Scorner’s Seat, 1973
Symposium, 1973
Mud Violet, 1973
Parthen, 1973
Barnaby’s Clock, 1973
Ghost in the Corn Crib, 1973
Seven Story Dream, 1973
The World as Will and Wallpaper, 1973
Days of Grass, Days of Straw, 1973
By the Seashore, 1973
And Name My Name, 1974
Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread, 1974
The Man with the Aura, 1974
The Most Forgettable Story in the World, 1974
And Mad Undancing Bears, 1974
Royal Licorice, 1974
Endangered Species, 1974
Mr. Hamadryad, 1974
Animal Fair, 1974
For All Poor Folks at Picketwire, 1975
Or Little Ducks Each Day, 1975
Heart Grow Fonder, 1975
Three Shadows of the Wolf, 1975
The Skinny People of Leptophlebo Street, 1975
Cabrito, 1976
Fog in My Throat, 1976
Funnyfingers, 1976
Horns on Their Heads, 1976
Love Affair With Ten Thousand Springs, 1976
Smoe and the Implicit Clay, 1976
The Hand with One Hundred Fingers, 1976
Oh Tell Me Will It Freeze Tonight, 1976
Assault on Fat Mountain, 1976
Puddle on the Floor, 1976
Berryhill, 1976
Oh, Those Trepidatious Eyes!, 1977
Thou Whited Wall, 1977
Fall of Pebble-Stones, 1977
Bequest of Wings, 1978
Bright Coins in Never-Ending Stream, 1978
Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies, 1978
Splinters, 1978
Quiz Ship Loose, 1978
Bright Flightways, 1978
The Man Who Walked Though Cracks, 1978
Oh Tell Me It Will Freeze Tonight, 1979
St. Poleander’s Eve, 1979
Rainy Day in Halicarnasses, 1979
Almost Perfect, 1980
Phoenic’, 1980
The Funny Face Murders, 1980
Lord Torpedo, Lord Gyroscope, 1980
The Forty-Seventh Island, 1980
And All the Skies Are Full of Fish, 1980
The Only Tune That He Could Play, 1980
Crocodile, 1980
Bank and Shoal of Time, 1981
New People, 1981
In Deepest Glass, 1981
You Can’t Go Back, 1982
Golden Gate, 1982
Six Leagues From Lop, 1982
Great Tom Fool, or the Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers, 1982
Thieving Bear Planet, 1982
Ifrit, 1982
Square and Above Board, 1982
Calamities of the Last Pauper, 1982
Make Sure the Eyes Are Big Enough, 1982
Marsilia V, 1982
One-Eyed Mocking-Bird, 1982
This Boding Itch, 1982
Tongues of the Matagorda, 1982
And You Did Not Wail, 1983
Bird-Master, 1983
Company in the Wings, 1983
Faith Sufficient, 1983
Haruspex, 1983
Heart of Stone, Dear, 1983
In the Turpentine Trees, 1983
Jack Bang’s Eyes, 1983
Pleasures and Palaces, 1983
Posterior Analytics, 1983
Snake in His Bosom, 1983
The End of Outward, 1983
The Last Astronomer, 1983
Unique Adventure Gone, 1983
What Big Tears the Dinosaur’s, 1983
Pine Castle, 1983
I’ll See It Done and Then I’ll Die, 1984
Of Laughter and the Love of Friends, 1984
The Effigy Histories, 1984
The Ninety-Ninth Cubicle, 1984
Two For Four Ninety-Five, 1984
And Some in Velvet Gowns, 1984
Oh What You Do When the Well Runs Dry?, 1984
The Doggone Highly Scientific Door, 1984
The Man Who Made Models, 1984
All Hollow Though You Be, 1985
Ewe Lamb, 1985
John Salt, 1985
Slippery, 1985
Magazine Section, 1985
Flaming-Arrow, 1985
Junkyard Thoughts, 1986
Inventions Bright and New, 1986
Along the San Pennatus Fault, 1986
Something Rich and Strange, 1986
Gray Ghost: A Reminiscence, 1987
Rain Mountain, 1988
Task Force Fifty-Eight and One Half, 1988
The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study, 1988
Le Hot Sport, 1988
The Man Who Lost His Magic, 1989
The Elliptical Grave, 1989
Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night of Count Finnegan on Galveston Island, 1990
Episodes of the Argo, 1990
Holy Woman, 1990
Maleficent Morning, 1990
Buckets Full of Brains, 1991
Hound Dog’s Ear, 1991
Anamnesis, 1992
I Don’t Care Who Keeps the Cows, 1994
Happening in Chosky Bottoms, 1995
Goldfish, 1996
The Emperor’s Shoestrings, 1997
There’ll Always Be Another Me, 2003

Poems

No Stone Unthrown and Son of No Stone Unthrown, 1977
Archipelago, 1980
From More Than Melchiesedech: Verses from an Unpublished Novel, 1980
A Stringless-Fiddle Notion, 1983
All in the Boundless Ocean, 1983
Ancient Sorceries, 1983
From Alpha World of Kaptein’s Star, 1983
Internal Doctor Harvey Lee, 1983
Laughing Kelly, 1983
Little Willy Verses, 1983
Medical Malpractice Medley, 1983
Sylvester, 1983
Tale of a Tail, 1983
Strangers From Beyond the Sky, 1984
Sonnet, 1985
Unregimented Hours, 1986
A Thing of Else Five Heads or Three, 1987
At the Sign of the Golden Apple, 1987
Dark Shine, 1988
Envoi, 1988
Fair Hills of Ocean, Oh!, 1988
Iron Tongue of Midnight, 1988
More Than Melchisedech (The Gadarene Swine Song), 1988** **
Oh Bloody Planks of Tyburn Prison, 1988
R.A.L, 1988
The Elliptical Grave, 1988
Thou Melchisedech, 1988
When All the World was Young, 1988
Works and Days, 1988
One Frozen Moment, 1990
When the Music Breaks, 1991

Chapbooks

Horns on Their Heads, 1976
My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 1 & 2, 1986
My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 3 & 4, 1987
My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 5 & 6, 1987
My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 7 & 8, 1988
Promontory Goats, 1988
How Many Miles to Babylon?, 1989
The Elliptical Grave, 1989
My Heart Leaps Up, Chapters 9 & 10, 1990
Dotty, 1983
Anamnesis, 1992
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas, 2007
The Six Fingers of Time, 2010
Alloys, 2016
All the People, 2016
Dream World, 2016
The Weirdest World, 2016

Other

That Moon Plague, 1969
Shape of the Science Fiction Story, 1975
Great Awkward Gold, 1979
More Worlds Than One?, 1979
Something New Under the Black Suns, 1979
The Day After the World Ended, 1979
The Ten Thousand Masks of the World, 1979
The World’s Narration, 1979
For a Little Bit of Gold, 1980
Rare Earths and Pig-Weeds, 1980
Riddle-Writers of the Isthmus, 1980
The Gathering of the Tribes, 1980
Through the Red Fire, 1980
True Believers, 1980
The Case of the Moth-Eaten Magician, 1981
Tell It Funny, Og, 1984
Tolkien as Christian, 1989