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Lafferty, R.A.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD?
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Wildside Press
2000

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R. A. Lafferty's third short story collection: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?. Subtitled (in the original 1974 hardcover) "Stories about Secret Places and Mean Men, the story types alternate (contents page is in 2 columns.) Lafferty's stories are colorful, rambunctious, often full of odd myths and cultures. He may be an acqured taste, but for those who have done so, his stories are wonderfully rich and strange.

About a Secret Crocodile
Mad Man
Nor Limestone Islands
The Man Underneath
Boomer Flats
This Grand Carcass Yet
In the Garden
Groaning Hinges of the World
Golden Trabant
How They Gave It Back
Maybe Jones and the City
Seven Story Dream
Adam Had Three Brothers
Pig in a Pokey
The Weirdest World
The Ultimate Creature

These originally appeared in Galaxy, IF, Amazing, Magazine of Horror, New Mexico Quarterly, Alfred Hitchcock's, The Third Foundation, Ruins of Earth and Universe 1 - from 1961 to 1971. There is no overlap between these stories and those in any other Lafferty collection.

(Some story summaries):
"The Weirdest World" - an exile from another planet becomes the star of a Florida reptile farm.
"Mad Man" - a man who's livelihood depends upon his fierce rages gets tired of being angry.
"The Ultimate Creature" - the world's meanest man marries the universe's most beautiful woman - with rather unexpected offspring as the result.