The Hanging Stranger

Philip K. Dick

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots.

Philip K. Dick

[Illustration] Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it.

Philip K. Dick

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet.

Philip K. Dick

_The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools._ They had almost finished with the loading.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.