The Hanging Stranger

Name: The Hanging Stranger
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9781666592917

Author: Philip K. Dick

Series: Early Stories of Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 10/17/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Collections & Anthologies

Synopsis

In The Hanging Stranger, TV salesman Ed Loyce is a practical man who, when he sees something wrong tries to correct it. Then one day he sees a lifeless body hanging in the town square. What he can't figure out is, why nobody seems to care.

About Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) - was a prolific novelist, essayist and short story writer - having published approximately 44 novels and 121 short stories. His works have been turned into numerous popular films, including Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau. He won a Hugo Award in 1963 for his novel The Man in the High Castle and has been named as one of the hundred greatest English-language writers by Time magazine.

About Chris Lutkin

Chris Lutkin has been an actor, a director, a writer, and a teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

“The Hanging Stranger”—one of the Philip K. 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......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean

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

Goodreads review by mark

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