is a story that I'd recommend to anyone. 
is a story a Lafferty fan would like. 
are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.
The table of contents is more interesting than the remaining content of the book unfortunately, so read the table of contents here and maybe buy one of the other books first:
CONTENTS
Chapter
I I Think I will Dismember the World
with my Hands 7
II Either Awful Dead or Awful Old 26
III If They Can Kill You, I Can Kill You
Worse 41
IV Liar on the Mountain 64
V Helical Passion and Saintly Sexpot 82
VI Revenge of Strength Unused 102
VII Of Elegant Dogs and Returned Men 117
VIII The Line of Your Throat, the
Mercurial Movement 135
IX But I Eat Them Up, Federico,
I Eat Them Up 156
X Are You Not of Flimsy Flesh To
Be So Afraid? 173
XI "I Did Not Call You," said the Lord 191
XII Fourth Mansions 208
XIII And All Tall Monsters Stand 231
Actually, Fourth Mansions was my first Lafferty book, and one I really enjoyed. It's effectively displays how different Lafferty's writing style is from everyone else. Any other writer using the same bases for a novel (metaphysical conspiracies concerning the eventual dominance of the soul of the world) would have approached it as a thriller or drama. Lafferty makes it a metaphysical gedankenexperiment of the first order and paints a vivid picture of the principals.
One of the truely great novels of all time. I was captivated with this book and the imagery. I have often thought that this would make a great feature film. The sense of otherworldness and bizzare mythos of evolution and history, subversive groups of demigods and the main character either a potential savior or victim. I have met people like the Badgers, the Toads, the Serpents, though more subtly than Mr. Laffety portrays them. Many references to arcane texts. An exceptional work I have read many times.
I was not familiar with Lafferty and I just read FOURTH MANSIONS; now, I need to read ALL his books. I thought this book was amazing -- as if Shakespeare had been commissioned to write a Rogers & Hammerstein-like musical. Replete with Greek chorus. Wow. I'm hooked.