R. A. Lafferty wrote some of the greatest short stories in the English language, and most people never have the opportunity to read them. Those who do want to read R. A. Lafferty these days have two options: purchase an old paperback off eBay at a usurious mark-up, or download dodgy OCR scans and make do as best they can. This is all the more tragic when one notes the number of Lafferty works published by obscure small presses that have become unavailable in any medium whatsoever. This book aims to remedy that.  Collected here in this free volume is every R. A. Lafferty story ever published, from 'The Wagons' in 1959 to 'There'll Always Be Another Me' in 2003. It is a gift to every reader who loves the strange and the new, every old fan and new seeker who has heard of the special magic Lafferty possessed. It is our sincere hope that you will read him, that you'll enjoy him, and that you'll pass him on to your friends.

Aurelia was a fifteen-year-old girl from a very advanced world. She’d passed Starship building easily enough, but she’d slept through most of celestial navigation. That was how she ended up on a little back-water dump like Earth, where her advanced powers seemed like miracles. Some thought she was the Messiah. Some thought she was the Devil. No one was prepared for the truth.

"The king was in his counting-house. He was counting to see whether there was enough gold to maintain the golden age that had already begun, in wobbly fashion, and almost unnoticed. And he was amazed by the amount of gold that he found."  — Notes From The Golden Age, R.A. LaffertyThere is a lot of gold left to Lafferty even after the tales have been talled. After the overwhelming positive response to our collection of R.A. Lafferty's short fiction, we decided a companion volume was needed, one which gathered together the core of his non-fiction in one convenient place for his fans, both past and future.This e-book contains: It's Slippery Down The Cellar StairsTrue BelieversCranky Old Man From TulsaThe Fall of RomeAfterwords and Memoir commentaries on the author's own storiesLetters and essays from other venuesThe typographical corrections, rigorous proof-reading, and active Table of Contents every good e-book needs to be worth your time

Won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1973.