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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Hanging Stranger. Sep 07, Richard Derus rated it really liked it. You just can't beat PKD for atmospheric horror. I can't say I liked the story I wasn't entirely sold on the s-ness of it, Emerson and Philco TVs and Loyce driving his Packard are references anyone more than five years younger than I am isn't likely to follow PKD's obsession?

The carefully constructed puzzle is one we've You just can't beat PKD for atmospheric horror. The carefully constructed puzzle is one we've encountered so many times at this point in the 21st century that it's not remotely surprising. It's a delicious iteration of the survivor-of-the-invasion story because it's so low-tech, so unconcerned with whys and hows.

Loyce does awful, unspeakable things with his clarity, and is punished for them; somehow he's got time in his headlong rush to Save The World to think through the implications of what he's seen in the context of the Old Testament; and thus is PKD's hand tipped. He's giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Status Quo.

Harry Harrison bought this story for the December edition of Science Fiction Adventures , so it was written sometime in the heat of the Second Red Scare. That atmosphere of paranoia, that sense of the world as you knew it disappearing from under your feet, is one that resonates strongly on both sides of the great cultural rift today.

All in all, a good listening experience, a satisfactory early-PKD read, and a TV episode loosely inspired by the story will round out one's experience of how a tormented mind's solidly crafted crumbling structure can enlighten the more fortunate, less troubled, sheeple of the world. I'm not much of an ear-reader, but this guy's narration actually gives me a sense of what y'all like about audiobooks. View all 7 comments.

May 02, Bill Kerwin rated it it was amazing Shelves: 20th-c-amer , fiction , science-fiction , short-stories. Dick stories chosen for the Amazon series Electric Dreams —is a haunting political allegory about desensitization and social control. It is also scary classic sci-fi thriller, a paranoid repast spiced up a few generous shakes of insect fear. First published in Science Fiction Adventure December , it still carries a powerful impact today.

Ed Loyce, returning to his TV repair shop after working all morning in his basement, is shocked to discover the body of an unknown man hanging from a lamp post in the square. Soon Loyce uncovers the disturbing truth: the people in town have been replaced by insects that are extraordinarily adept at mimicry. The story is exciting, with a few twists and turns, and concludes and a surprising—and inevitable—conclusion. View all 3 comments. Jan 11, Lyn rated it liked it. The Hanging Stranger, first published in , when author Philip K.

Dick was only 25 years old reveals the younger writer to be interested in horror as much as his later dominated genre of science fiction. A reader wonders what may have come if this story had become more popular and the young writer persuaded to follow the paths of H. Lovecraft and Richard Matheson rather than becoming a pioneer in the science fiction field.

Still, this early work demonstrates his ability to convey an eerie The Hanging Stranger, first published in , when author Philip K. Still, this early work demonstrates his ability to convey an eerie sense of unorthodoxy and hints at an early idea of mental illness, both elements that would become ubiquitous in his later works.

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, when it's pointed out by the MC, to care! The narrator of the first audio version I listened to was absolutely atrocious. Think worst TV commercial ever with no emotion in the vocalization. It's why I Another short story by PKD, this one a bit longer than the other and not taking place in space.

It's why I changed to the other I was lucky enough to find out that the narrator who had done the previous short story so impeccably well had also narrated a version of this story. As seems to be typical PKD, it's all about setting a certain scene before a nice twist or culmination of the horror one felt rising throughout the story.

This was exactly the same: creepy and foreboding. The ending was a bit more predictable than in the other story I just read but it was still a very nice set-up and should make the reader's skin crawl. Apr 13, Joey Woolfardis rated it really liked it Shelves: champion , egads-bogen , bookshelf , masculine , septic , 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 early story.

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It's a little Lovecraftian in this sense, with the added mental-state side to it, but I want to enjoy Dick for being Dick, not for being a bit Lovecraftian. The characters were a bit meh, I'm running out of ways to say Dick writes superbly well and I'm really enjoying his work as I progress through it.

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The characters were a bit meh, but that tends to happen with most short stories. It's such a good story though, if you look behind the general tropes of what makes a good story and what makes you enjoy a good story. May 27, Bradley rated it really liked it Shelves: shelf , horror , fantasy. A creepy ghost story with tie-ins to psychopomps and police. Not Just Hanging Around What would you do if you discovered, on your way to work, the body of a stranger dangling from a post in the middle of a park? Ed Loyce, owner of a small TV shop, does not think twice but raises hue and cry but the thing that is even more bewildering than the pendular corpse on public display is the fact that no one else but he seems to care.

In fact, his assistant is even indignant at having been called out of the shop when he was talking to a customer just for looking at Not Just Hanging Around What would you do if you discovered, on your way to work, the body of a stranger dangling from a post in the middle of a park? In fact, his assistant is even indignant at having been called out of the shop when he was talking to a customer just for looking at a hanging stranger.

Eventually, Loyce is taken away by the police, but he manages to pull off an escape and while he is hiding, he takes in some unsettling details that make him come to the conclusion that his hometown is being invaded by insect people replacing the original inhabitants. On his flight out of town, Loyce soon finds himself faced with the uncomfortable question of whom he can still trust.

Some days later, I came across this very story, and found a lot that seemed familiar to me. I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them.

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In other words, as soon as Loyce is told that the man was hanged and publicly displayed on decree of the government, it all falls into place for him and, however outrageous a fact it may be in itself, he need no longer care nor worry. We need not turn up our noses at Loyce because all too often, we are doing it ourselves, in order to comfortably fall back into our day-to-day lives. Dulled, tired faces. People going home from work. Quite ordinary faces. None of them paid any attention to him.

All sat quietly, sunk down in their seats, jiggling with the motion of the bus. The man sitting next to him unfolded a newspaper. He began to read the sports section, his lips moving. An ordinary man. Blue suit. A businessman, or a salesman. On his way home to his wife and family.

Philip K. Dick's The Hanging Stranger

Across the aisle a young woman, perhaps twenty. Dark eyes and hair, a package on her lap. Nylons and heels. Red coat and white Angora sweater. Gazing absently ahead of her. A high school boy in jeans and black jacket. A great triple-chinned woman with an immense shopping bag loaded with packages and parcels. Her thick face dim with weariness. Ordinary people.

The kind that rode the bus every evening. Going home to their families.

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The Hanging Stranger is a short story by Philip K. Dick originally published in December in the magazine Science Fiction Adventures. Dick's Electric Dreams.


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Another one of many things I've never heard of. At least it isn't as short as some of his other short stories so it has a tiny, tiny chance that I may remember it. I love the plot given on Wikipedia: The protagonist Ed Loyce, is a store owner who is disturbed when he sees a stranger hanging from a lamppost, but finds that other people consider the apparent lynching unremarkable.


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    6. What more do you need to say than that? Below that is the TV series plot which begins: The television adaptation differs from the short story in having a more political focus.