Project Gutenberg 2012-12-05 Public domain in the USA. 2318 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred The Hanging Stranger Reading ease score: 89.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Hanging Stranger" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction short story written in the early 1950s. The narrative explores themes of alien invasion and societal control, centering around a strange incident in a small town where a body is discovered hanging from a lamppost. The story examines the protagonist's growing realization that his town has been invaded by a malevolent presence, leading to a thrilling quest for survival against an incomprehensible enemy. The plot follows Ed Loyce, a television salesman, who stumbles upon a disturbing sight in the town square: a body hanging from a lamppost. As he tries to alert the townspeople, he realizes no one seems to notice or care about the dead man. In a series of harrowing events, Loyce discovers that an alien force has taken over the town, controlling the minds of its residents. With increasing urgency, he attempts to escape and gather help, ultimately revealing the insidious nature of the invaders as they mimic human forms. The story culminates in a chilling reflection on human apathy and the bizarre transformation of society under an unseen threat, leaving readers pondering the nature of identity and control. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41562/41562-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 59223 59228 2024-10-17T12:53:01.997124 2023-09-18T07:06:35.438679 text/html text/html 56043 2012-12-05T09:11:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 214818 2012-12-05T09:11:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226029 2024-10-17T12:53:04.193108 application/epub+zip 224908 2024-10-17T12:53:02.532138 application/epub+zip 78037 2024-10-17T12:53:02.259109 application/epub+zip 262464 2024-10-17T12:53:05.628132 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 255178 2024-10-17T12:53:03.918123 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 108591 2022-09-19T04:41:54.160995 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 50933 50838 2024-10-17T12:53:01.810121 2023-09-18T07:06:35.277657 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 50768 2012-12-05T09:11:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19706 2012-12-05T09:11:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20159 2024-10-17T12:53:05.940105 application/rdf+xml 23313 2024-10-17T12:53:02.324125 image/jpeg 4211 2024-10-17T12:53:02.291143 image/jpeg 215332 2024-10-17T12:53:02.009125 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia