R.A. Lafferty Devotional Page




The Works

This is a list of all known shortstories, that Lafferty wrote. I allowed myself the liberty to give a short critique to each story I've read. Excellent is a story that I'd recommend to anyone. OK is a story a Lafferty fan would like. Lame are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.

You can now add your own comments to each story if you like, or read what other readers wrote.

Frog on the Mountain

Von Nat! am 5.07.03 22:24 | 2 Kommentare
Excellent Garamask is out to hunt the animal that killed his friend. But the hunter is really the hunted. Can he turn the tables again ?

2 Comments

Sean Carr | 20.09.05 18:45

A lot going on in this one. Papa Garamask seems like an placeholder for Hemingway-style macho writing, and the frog man one for newer styles. I liked the mythic elements (flying creatures tearing bits off the protagonists, ur-beasts stalking them). Great story!

Marlon Fields | 27.11.05 23:26

I love the Hemingwayesque hero, who fights animals without guns and who argues with ghosts. The mystery element is fair and neither too hard or too easy.

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