The Hanging Stranger - Wikisource, the free online library

←The Hanging Stranger(1953)byPhilip K. Dick→related portals: Apocalyptic fiction, Science fiction, Thriller.sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.First published in Science Fiction Adventures, December 19531367214The Hanging Stranger1953Philip K. DickAt five o'clock Ed Loyce washed up, tossed on his hat and coat, got his car out and headed across town toward his TV sales store. He was tired. His back and shoulders ached from digging dirt out of the basement and wheeling it into the back yard. But for a forty-year-old man he had done okay. Janet could get a new vase with the money he had saved; and he liked the idea of repairing the foundations himself.It was getting dark. The setting sun cast long rays over the scurrying commuters, tired and grim-faced, women loaded down with bundles and packages, students, swarming home from the university, mixing with clerks and businessmen and drab secretaries. He stopped his Packard for a red light and then started it up again. The stor...