Short Fiction Collected
Thomas M. Disch
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Title Page
About Thomas M. Disch
Pseudonyms
Bibliography: Novels
Bibliography: Novelizations
Bibliography: Serials
Bibliography: Chapbooks
Bibliography: Collections
Bibliography: Omnibus
Bibliography: Nonfiction
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
Epigraph
1962
The Double-Timer
1963
The Demi-Urge
Final Audit
Fables of the Past & Future
“Utopia? Never!”
1964
Minnesota Gothic
A Thesis on Social Forms and Social Controls in the U.S.A
Death Before Dishonor
Now is Forever
Genetic Coda
Descending
Dangerous Flags
Nada
Assassin & Son
1965
The Vamp
102 H-Bombs
White Fang Goes Dingo
Leader of the Revolution
The Roaches
Come to Venus Melancholy
The Sightseers
1966
5 Eggs
The Way to a Man’s Heart
The Echo of Wrath
The Incredible Giant Hot Dog
Bone of Contention
Invaded by Love
The Squirrel Cage
Cephalotron
Doubting Thomas
Echo Round His Bones (Part One of Two Parts)
Three Points on the Demographic Curve
1967
The Affluence of Edwin Lollard
Echo Round His Bones (conclusion)
The Discovery of the Nullitron
The Number You Have Reached
Three Short Stories
Problems of Creativeness
Camp Concentration (part one)
The Atheist’s Bargain
Camp Concentration (part two)
Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism
Camp Concentration (part three)
Camp Concentration (part four)
Slaves
Casablanca
Linda & Daniel & Spike
1968
1-A
The City of Penetrating Light
Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit
Danny’s New Friends from Deneb
The Colours
1969
The Invasion of the Giant Stupid Dinosaurs
The Master of the Milford Altarpiece
Quincunx
X: Yes
1970
His Own Kind
The Asian Shore
The Pressure of Time
Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory
1971
The Happy Story
The Wonderful World of Griswald Tractors
Fun with Your New Head
The Beginning of April or the End of March
Et in Arcadia Ego
Feathers from the Wings of an Angel
Angouleme
Bodies
Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come
1972
Things Lost
334
The Death of Socrates
Everyday Life in the Later Roman Empire
1973
The Universe as Modern Dance
1974
The Dumbbell Murder Case
The Persistence of Desire
Displaying the Flag
The Planet Arcadia
A Kiss Goodbye
The Man Who Understood the Difference between Salmon and Orange Chiffon
The Extension Cord
Mrs Gallagher’s Psychoanalysis
The Novelist with the Wooden Character
Dawn Breaks over Crakow
The Tic
What They Do with Mothers-in-law in Tierra del Fuego
The Cottonwood Tree
The Golden Lemons
The Page for October Has Been Torn Off
The Romance of the Boy and the Girl
The Man Who Didn’t Doubt It
Gratitude, or, the Serpent’s Tooth
Happy Families all Like Scrabble
Jessica, Raymond, and Jack
The Pocket from Brooks Brothers
Vapors
A Day in the Life of the Artist
Farewell to the Riviera
The Chocolate Egg
The Unspoken Wish
L’Homme
Mimi Smith
The Soliloquy in the Last Act
The Pearl Necklace
Getting into Death
The Santa Claus Compromise
1975
The Apartment Next to the War
At the Pleasure Centre
The Joycelin Shrager Story
1976
The Patent-Leather Patriot
Apollo
Death and the Single Girl
The Fire Began to Burn the Stick, the Stick Began to Beat the Dog
The Black Cat
Mystery Diet of the Gods: A Revelation
The Harp That Conquered Hell
1977
Xmas
Planet of the Rapes
1978
Chanson Pérpetuelle
Mutability
The Man Who Had No Idea
Concepts
1979
On Wings of Song (1st of 3 parts)
On Wings of Song (2nd of 3 parts)
On Wings of Song (Conclusion)
1980
Breakfast for Eight
Josie and the Elevator
The Brave Little Toaster
The Foetus
The Novelist’s Wife
The Revelation
The Pressure of Time (revised version)
The Doomsday Machine
The Vengeance of Hera or, Monogamy Triumphant
1981
The Grown-Up
Carousel
Ringtime
1982
In Praise of Older Women
Understanding Human Behavior
An Italian Lesson
1983
The Shirt’s Tale, The Shorts Story
The New Me
Attila on Fifth Avenue
Downtown
Music Box
The Wandering Jew
1984
Canned Goods
1985
Torturing Mr. Amberwell
Milton on Fifth Avenue
1986
A Rebel Belle
Hard Work or, The Secrets of Success
The Girl with the Vita-Gel Hair
1987
Rude Awakening
Palindrome
Brigazoon
1988
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Voices of the Kill
1989
The Happy Turnip
Egg and Chips
1992
The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or A Shameless Lie
A Troll of Surewould Forest (Part One)
A Troll of Surewould Forest (Part Two)
A Troll of Surewould Forest (Part Three)
1993
A Family of the Post-Apocalypse
The Apotheosis of Richard Philo
A Small Case of Mood Poisoning; Must Be Something I Hate
One Night, or, Scherazade’s Bare Minimum
The Burial Society
This Little Pig Had None
1994
The Story of Faith
The Man Who Read a Book
1995
The Invisible Woman
1997
The Children’s Fund to Save the Dinosaurs: A Charity Appeal
Nights in the Gardens of the Kerhonkson Prison for the Aged and Infirm
The First Annual Performance Arts Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield
1998
The Late Movie
1999
The Owl and the Pussycat
2001
Jour de Fête
Cancelled Friends
Martian Madness
After Postville
In Xanadu
The Shadow
2002
Bingo Night at a Martian Sportsbar
Torah! Torah! Torah!: Three Bible Tales for the Third Millennium
Painting Eggplants
The Flâneurs of Mars
The Marching Raspberries
Sweetly Sings the Chocolate Budgie
United We Stand Still
2004
The White Man
2005
The Wall of America
A Knight at the Opera
2008
The Voyage of the Proteus
Three Chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang