R. A. Lafferty 11 min read

It was the awfullest dream in the world, in fact, it seemed to be the only dream there was, and it kept coming back every single night.

R. A. Lafferty's 1962 story, from one of SF's most original voices, spins wry comedy from a man plagued by a recurring nightmare of being a strange green creature. Quirky, funny, inimitable. Read it for early Lafferty at his most playfully surreal, where the dividing line between dream and waking gets deliciously blurry.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

11 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan