Quicker Than the Eye

Background

Contents

• "Unterderseaboat Doktor", which features, as a psychiatrist, a former submarine captain in Hitler's undersea fleet, making connections between sub-marine and sub-conscious.
• "Zaharoff/Richter Mark V", a speculation on why so many major cities are in such dangerous locales.
• "Remember Sascha?"
• "Another Fine Mess", a homage to Laurel and Hardy; a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair".
• "The Electrocution"
• "Hopscotch"
• "The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood.
• "That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes
• "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
• "Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
• "Dorian In Excelsis", which pays homage to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
• "No News, Or What Killed the Dog?"
• "The Witch Door"
• "The Ghost in the Machine"
• "At the End Of the Ninth Year"
• "Bug"
• "Once More, Legato"
• "Exchange"
• "Free Dirt"
• "Last Rites"
• "The Other Highway"
• "Make Haste To Live: An Afterword", in which the author writes of writing and the back-stories of some of the stories in this collection.