The Hanging Stranger

The Hanging Stranger is a short story by Philip K. Dick, which was written in 1953. It is the fourth story in the collection “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams”, compiled in 2017, after the television series of the same name. The Hanging Stranger was adapted for filming by Dee Rees, and the episode w......more

Paranoia will destroy ya even if you're right about what you're being paranoid over. Like say the mutilated stranger hanging from a lamppost in the middle of the town square that apparently bothers no one. This short story distills all that made Dick a fascinating and exciting author in the early pa......more

Another short story by PKD, this one a bit longer than the other and not taking place in space. This story is about a man emerging from a cellar where he worked all day long to find a man hanging from a street lamp in his town. The truly unsettling thing about this is that nobody seems to notice or,......more

I'm running out of ways to say Dick writes superbly well and I'm really enjoying his work as I progress through it. Just to be different, I'll talk about the stuff I didn't like so much. I wish it hadn't been about aliens. It feels like a slight cop-out, but I think I'm right in saying this is a very......more

Very early PKD horror/SF. A creepy ghost story with tie-ins to psychopomps and police. :) It really showcases his early knowledge of religions even though it's just a scare/scare. :) Very short story, but quite pleasurable. :)......more