R. A. Lafferty
Biography
American writer.
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- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Place of birth
- Neola· Iowa
- Birth date
- 07 November 1914
- Nationality
- American
Movies
Cowards May Die
2019
Parkway Hotel
2018
Future King
2017
The Kill Play
2017
In the near future health care and human rights have been rolled back so much that human life is basically meaningless, allowing for the creation of new forms of barbaric entertainment.
Highway to Hell
2016
Path of Redemption
2016
Brought into a world of crime and pain, young Adriano must make things right to avenge his parents for the assassination delivered by the yakuza inspired gang that raised him.
Boxed
2015
A pair of novice kidnappers accidentally abduct the wrong girl, and find their lives are in danger when they discover their victim's boyfriend is a vicious serial killer..
Waffle Street
2015
Waffle Street's riches-to-rags tale is an adaptation of James Adams' 2010 memoir of the same name (published by Sourced Media Books), which chronicles the financier's foray into the food industry.
Killing Rob Teare
2015
In a time of corruption, four brothers are deputized to apprehend the man behind all of it.
The Purity Code
2014
A chilling story set in 1975 rural America about an overbearing mother raising her two children under religious doctrine.
Millenials
2014
A struggling hustler from South Central reluctantly partners with a whimsical rapper from Malibu, whose money-making adventures seem to always go psychedelically wrong..
Rise of the Valkyrie
2014
Zhenya, a beautiful young Viking, and her friends flee the destruction of her village but encounter a dark creature in the abandoned town where they take refuge.
The Never Bell
2013
The Never Bell is a dark fantastical short that explores the naive wonders and crooked chimeras of an innocent imagination awakening.
After
2012
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation.
High Heels & Hoodoo
2012
A greedy party girl is so determined to get what she wants that she employs the dangerous magic of a Gullah root doctor..
The Goose
2011
Two guys playing a heated game of basketball must come to terms with an incident that may forever change their relationship..
Apologize
2011
Quantum Apocalypse
2010
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town heroes fail to find a solution..
Hours Before
2010
A student's psychological problems are about to tear his school apart until his only true friend is forced to get in the way..
Rebound
2009
This is a film that deals with gay relationships within the community of people of color.
The Method
2008
Mitt hem ar ditt hem
2006
A beautiful young Swedish exchange student journeys to the States to live with the perfect suburban host family.
Hackjob
2006
Left for Dead
2005
Inspired by true events, this short film is the story of a young girl's struggle to cope with her father's terminal illness and still find the strength to survive.
Les petites fleurs
2005
In order to leave his past behind, a small-time thief must commit one last, and most terrible crime.
Solo
2003
Melding documentary footage with personal history and performance art, Solo honours the fragility of self-discovery.
A Season on the Brink
2002
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein.
Prep
2002
Vivien Leigh
2002
Spark
1998
An urban black couple (Terrence Howard, Nicole Parker) traveling via back roads from Chicago to LA has a car breakdown in a backwater town where everyone is white trailer trash and racial epithets are common graffiti.
Spark
1996
Spark is the story of a young black couple who end up stranded in the California desert on their way to LA from Chicago.
The Day Time Ended
1979
Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that takes it back to prehistoric times..
223 Wick
2022
TV
Everyone Is Doing Great
2018
Seth and Jeremy enjoyed relative success from 'Eternal', a hit television vampire drama.
After Pluto
2017
Crisis
2014
Centers on an idealistic Secret Service agent who finds himself at the center of an international crisis on his first day on the job.
Schlock Shock Radio
2013
Schlock Shock Radio is an audio drama anthology series of horror stories done in the same style as old horror radio dramas of yesteryear..
One Tree Hill
2003
This series follows the eventful lives of some high-school kids in Tree Hill, a small but not too quiet town in North Carolina, where the greatest source of pride is the high school basketball team, the Ravens, since living memory coached by old Whitey Durham.
Books
East of Laughter
R. A. (Raphael Aloysius) Lafferty
Annales de Klepsis
R. A. (Raphaël Aloysius) Lafferty
Collection présence du futurvoici le récit des aventures de long john tyrone, historien affligé d'une jambe de bois, sur la planète klepsis dont les habitants, hommes et bêtes, vivent en permanence sous l'effet hallucinogène de leur nourriture.
Best of R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty
Tor essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.
Short Fiction
R. A. Lafferty
Saturday You Die
R. A. Lafferty
Besides being born (that is an ordeal, no less an ordeal because you forget it) the worst thing to be gone through is to be a new boy in a small southern town.
All the People
R. A. Lafferty
Tin tony trotz had only one job—to watch out for something a little odd—in a universe that was insane!
Ugly Sea
R. A. Lafferty
The sea is ugly and monotonous, with only four or five faces, and all of them coarse, but mankind has just decided to deny this ugliness for subconscious reasons.
Wagons
R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty Super Pack
R. A. Lafferty
Collected her are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable r.
Day of the Glacier
R. A. Lafferty
The fifth or zurichthal glaciation of the pleistocene began on the morning of april 1, 1962, on a sunday about nine o’clock by eastern time.
Through Other Eyes
R. A. Lafferty
Using this machine you can look at the world through someone else’s eyes.
Past Master
R. A. Lafferty
The golden planet of astrobe, made in the image of utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy it forever; & yet, no one could understand it: in a world where wealth & comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert the golden citie.
Man Through the Cracks
R. A. Lafferty
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (eBook)
R. A. Lafferty
Man Who Made Models
R. A. Lafferty
With most of his brilliant and original work now out of print, this is the first volume in a series of the short fiction of r.
The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty, Science Fiction, Adventure
R. A. Lafferty
He began by breaking things that morning.
Annals of Klepsis
R. A. Lafferty
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add
R. A. Lafferty
Does anyone else have something further to add?
Not to Mention Camels
R. A. Lafferty
Three memorable creatures world jump in a meta-cosmic universe that orbits with nightmarish landscapes that thrive on anti-matter, anti-space, and anti-time.
Nine hundred grandmothers
R. A. Lafferty
In all of science fiction, there has never been a writer like r.
It's down the slippery cellar stairs
R. A. Lafferty
Alaric: The Day the World Ended
R. A. Lafferty
The fall of the roman empire was the denouement of a long and dramatic confrontation between powerful ideological forces and legendary men.
Iron tears
R. A. Lafferty
Contents: • you can't go back • ifrit • lord torpedo, lord gyroscope • funnyfingers• thieving bear planet• berryhill• the world as will and wallpaper• horns on their heads• by the seashore .
More than Melchisedech
R. A. Lafferty
Tales of Chicago
R. A. Lafferty
Tales of midnight
R. A. Lafferty
ARGO
R. A. Lafferty
Okla Hannali
R. A. Lafferty
"this curious and wonderful tall tale contributes to the apocalyptic revision of american history that began with little big man and bury my heart at wounded knee.
Mischief malicious
R. A. Lafferty
Lafferty in Orbit
R. A. Lafferty
Lafferty in Orbit
R. A. Lafferty
My Heart Leaps Up (Chapter 9 & 10, Booklet Series No 35)
R. A. Lafferty
Episodes of the Argo
R. A. Lafferty
Dotty.
R. A. Lafferty
Cranky old man from Tulsa
R. A. Lafferty
Early Lafferty II.
R. A. Lafferty
Sindbad
R. A. Lafferty
Sinbad
R. A. Lafferty
How many miles to Babylon
R. A. Lafferty
Sindbad
R. A. Lafferty
Sinbad
R. A. Lafferty
Elliptical grave
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Strange skies
R. A. Lafferty
The Devil Is Dead
R. A. Lafferty
This tells of an astonishing band of adventurers seeking the devil himself.
True believers
R. A. Lafferty
Early Lafferty.
R. A. Lafferty
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