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Feast of Laughter, Volume 5

December 2020

Editor Kevin Cheek , Gregorio Montejo
Cover art R. Ward Shipman
Publisher Ktistec Press
Price $19.99
Pages vi+367

  • "Volume 5, December 23, 2020" stated on the copyright page
  • Cover artist is credited on the copyright page. Illustration is titled "Nor Limestone Islands"
  • The editors are credited on the copyright page.
  • Pagination doesn't include the covers. There is one unnumbered, blank page after the last numbered page (367). Page vi is followed by page 7.
  • Based on the publication format, the verifier of this record has chosen to use the book method instead of the magazine method in determining the page count.
  • No printed price on the POD publication. The price given in this record is the list price on the Amazon listing, as of September 26, 2024.
  • POD data is printed on the last page facing inside the back cover. {{PV|Willem H.}}'s copy has it Barcoded "45791547R00205" with the statement: "Printed by Amazon Italia Logistica S.r.l. Torraza Piemonte (TO), Italy".
  • On the backcover is a poem as by Audifax O'Hanlon. This was used earlier as heading for chapter 4 of Lafferty's "Fourth Mansions" and is considered part of the novel.
  • The issue is also available at no cost in ebook PDF format here

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
7 Essay Non Fiction A Memory of Two Great Men Michael Swanwick
9 Essay Non Fiction Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) Gregorio Montejo
14 Essay Non Fiction Remembering Gene Wolfe Glenn McDorman
18 Essay Non Fiction "Goof Gloriously" Kevin Cheek
21 Essay Non Fiction Some Notes on Culture and History in R.A. Lafferty's "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies" John Ellison
33 Essay Non Fiction Cookies and Eyes Character and Plot Development Through Repeated Memes Kevin Cheek
34 Essay Non Fiction Cinnamon Cookie for Cerberus Kevin Cheek
38 Essay Non Fiction A Harvester Bestiary: The Bull, the Fish, and the Noble Snake Kevin Cheek
39 Essay Non Fiction What a Tangled Web We Weave Kevin Cheek
43 Essay Non Fiction The Eyes Have Had It Kevin Cheek
51 Essay Non Fiction "There Will Be Vengeance! It Has Been Told." - Apocalyptic Anger after "Ride a Tin Can" Marc Aramini
65 Essay Non Fiction Quantum Cats? Darrell Middleton
69 Essay Non Fiction Sixty-One Years Darrell Middleton
72 Essay Non Fiction A Look Back On 100 or So Weekend Readings Harold Bakker
76 Essay Non Fiction "Well, What Was the Missing Element?": Two "Worlds Without" by R.A. Lafferty Donald G. Keller
83 Essay Non Fiction On Literary Addiction and Something More: First Encounters with Lafferty and Why His Work Means So Much to Us Daniel Otto Jack Petersen
91 Essay Non Fiction Lafferty Reading John Ellison
93 Essay Non Fiction Encountering Lafferty Gord Wilson
96 Essay Non Fiction My Introduction to Ray Lafferty: A Memoir Henry C. Luthin
98 Essay Non Fiction Bill Reynolds Encounters Lafferty Bill Reynolds
100 Essay Non Fiction How I Discovered Lafferty Ron Ginzler
101 Essay Non Fiction My Introduction to Lafferty (Thanks, Mom) James Annon
103 Essay Non Fiction My First Encounter with Lafferty Clark Allen Dissmeyer
106 Essay Non Fiction How I Discovered Lafferty Kevin Cheek
108 Essay Non Fiction How I Discovered Lafferty, or Thank You, Ross Pavlac, 1951-1997, RIP. John Owen
113 Essay Non Fiction Because "Tulsa:" How I Discovered Lafferty Anthony Ryan Rhodes
115 Essay Non Fiction Cliff Climbing; Or How I First Encountered R.A. Lafferty Gregorio Montejo
126 Essay Non Fiction Among the Tallest Tales Rich Persaud
130 Essay Non Fiction How I Got Here Andrew Ferguson
132 Essay Non Fiction R. A. Howard Waldrop
135 Essay Non Fiction Introduction for Episodes of the Argo Gene Wolfe
141 Essay Non Fiction He Saw Another Mountain Laurence M. Janifer
145 Essay Non Fiction Introduction to Ringing Changes Robert Whitaker Sirignano
171 Essay Non Fiction The Programmed Utopia of R. A. Lafferty's Past Master William H. Hardesty, III
183 Essay Non Fiction An Appreciation of R. A. Lafferty Henry C. Luthin
187 Interview Non Fiction An Interview with R. A. Lafferty Paul Walker & R. A. Lafferty
200 Essay Non Fiction Demiurges, Gnosticism, and Carnivalesque Violence: "Snuffles" by R.A. Lafferty - Live from LaffCon 3 Glenn McDorman & Brandon Budda & Gregorio Montejo
221 Review Non Fiction Not to Mention Camels Michael Bishop & R. A. Lafferty
224 Review Non Fiction The Flame Is Green John J. Reilly & R. A. Lafferty
232 Review Non Fiction My Heart Leaps Up Paul Feeny & R. A. Lafferty
235 Review Non Fiction Fourth Mansions Heywood Reynolds & R. A. Lafferty
249 Short Fiction Fiction Five Corners, Oklahoma Ron Ginzler
257 Short Fiction Fiction And Their Tongues Walk Through the Earth J. M. Shiloh
269 Short Fiction Fiction The Crow's Word Stephen Case
299 Short Fiction Fiction In a Green Dress, Surrounded by Exploding Clowns Robert T. Jeschonek
319 Short Fiction Fiction Worm Reason. Fish Reason. J Simon
343 Short Fiction Fiction The Hand of the Potter: An Idyll R. A. Lafferty
359 Essay Non Fiction Astérix et Cléopâtre R. A. Lafferty
361 Essay Non Fiction Riddle Writers of the Isthmus R. A. Lafferty

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Feast of Laughter, Volume 5 Kevin Cheek & Gregorio Montejo
Cover Art Non Fiction Feast of Laughter, Volume 5 R. Ward Shipman
50 Interior Art Non Fiction Nighthawk Broken Anthony Ryan Rhodes
64 Interior Art Non Fiction Ride a Tin Can Anthony Ryan Rhodes
133 Interior Art Non Fiction Argo Gregorio Montejo
140 Interior Art Non Fiction Episodes of the Argo R. Ward Shipman
220 Interior Art Non Fiction Snuffles Anthony Ryan Rhodes
247 Interior Art Non Fiction He Should Have Started to Pull the World Down Around Our Ears Anthony Ryan Rhodes
340 Interior Art Non Fiction Lafferty Birthday Sketch Anthony Ryan Rhodes
341 Interior Art Non Fiction The Reefs of Earth Youchan Ito
342 Interior Art Non Fiction A Lafferty Reader Youchan Ito
bc Interior Art Non Fiction Fourth Mansions Illustrations Lisanne Lake