If you love R. A. Lafferty’s wondrous and transpossible stories, you’ve come to that love by unmarked roads. You’ve made your own way into one of the densest and most crazily jigsawed mythworlds ever created-a body of work that nobody will ever see all the way into, and no two will ever see the same way. You’ve helped dig out a labyrinth, and it’s a joyous thing, but the labyrinth is more than the digging. This volume is dedicated to the observation that the fog of obscurity is ever so slowly lifting from Lafferty’s world, and every year it’s a little easier to find your way in. It’s dedicated to all the raw colts-the old ones and young-who are coming to these works for the first time. Table of Contents

Inventions Bright and New: Original Essays Working With Ray: My Experiences with R.A. Lafferty by Greg Ketter Ray’s Recycling Rewards Program by John Owen Valery’s Really Eyes and the Parade of Creatures by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen
This Was More Than a Spectacle, More Than an Illusion, It was a Communicating Instrument R. A. Lafferty and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Relational Form of Being by Gregorio Montejo Through a Glass Darkly by Craig May Exploring Themes From Catholic Theology in Two Short Stories by R. A. Lafferty by John Ellison Late Light by Rich Persaud Lafferty’s Monkey by Clinton Reid Claussen Lafferty: An Appreciation by Patrick May Question: Why? Excuse: Because Monsters by Rich Persaud

All the People: International Fandom Seven-Story Dream on Terschelling by Peter Sijbenga The Lafferty Centennial In Japan by Kenji Matsuzaki Continued on Next Book by 7 Japanese Laffertians Russia Discovers R. A. Lafferty by Sergei Sobolev and Yakov Varganov

Those Who Know Everything: Interviews An Interview with Nat! by Kevin Cheek

Oh, Whatta Ya Do When The Well Runs Dry: Reprinted Essays Despair and the Duck Lady by Michael Swanwick R. A. Lafferty-the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a comeback by David Barnett Twice Beheaded: R. A. Lafferty’s Thomas More by Anne Lake Prescott Excerpt from a Thesis by John Ellison A Richness of Endings by Dan Knight Introduction to More than Melchisedech by Robert Whitaker Sirignano On Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Andrew Ferguson

You’re On The Right Track, Kid: Reviews R. A. Lafferty Spins a Yarn by Keith Purtell Strange Doings - a review by Stephen R. Case Oklahoma Gothic by Martin Heavisides Arrive at Easterwine-a brief review by Kevin Cheek Task Force Fifty-Eight and a Half by Heywood Reynolds Iron Tears - a review by Darrell Schweitzer Iron Tears - a review by Don Webb

The Emperor’s Shoestrings: Works Inspired by R. A. Lafferty Land of the Great Horses by Peter Sijbenga The Honking Worm and the Gorilla Cheetah by Bill Rogers The Waltz Macabre by Logan Giannini Fourteenth Chambers by Noah Wareness A Fisherman’s Tune by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen What I Wrote for Andronicus by Stephen R. Case Willow Beeman by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley

Primary Education: Lafferties An Interview with R. A. Lafferty by Tom Jackson Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by R. A. Lafferty