The Skull (short story)

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• Gather Yourselves Together (1950)
• Voices from the Street (1952)
• Solar Lottery (1954)
• Mary and the Giant (1954)
• The World Jones Made (1954)
• Eye in the Sky (1955)
• The Man Who Japed (1955)
• A Time for George Stavros (1956)
• Pilgrim on the Hill (1956)
• The Broken Bubble (1956)
• The Cosmic Puppets (1957)
• Puttering About in a Small Land (1957)
• Nicholas and the Higs (1958)
• Time Out of Joint (1958)
• In Milton Lumky Territory (1958)
• Confessions of a Crap Artist (1959)
• The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1960)
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1960)
• Vulcan's Hammer (1960)
• Dr. Futurity (1960)
• The Man in the High Castle (1961)
• We Can Build You (1962)
• Martian Time-Slip (1962)
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1963)
• The Game-Players of Titan (1963)
• The Simulacra (1963)
• The Crack in Space (1963)
• Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
• The Zap Gun (1964)
• The Penultimate Truth (1964)
• The Unteleported Man (1964)
• The Ganymede Takeover (1965)
• Counter-Clock World (1965)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1966)
• Nick and the Glimmung (1966)
• Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
• Ubik (1966)
• Galactic Pot-Healer (1968)
• A Maze of Death (1968)
• Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1969)
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
• Deus Irae (1976)
• Radio Free Albemuth (1976; published 1985)
• A Scanner Darkly (1977)
• Valis (1981)
• The Divine Invasion (1981)
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
• The Owl in Daylight (unfinished)

• A Handful of Darkness (1955)
• The Variable Man (1956)
• The Preserving Machine (1969)
• The Book of Philip K. Dick (1973)
• The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977)
• The Golden Man (1980)
• Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities (1984)
• I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985)
• The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987)
• Beyond Lies the Wub (1988)
• The Dark Haired Girl (1989)
• The Father-Thing (1989)
• Second Variety (1989)
• The Days of Perky Pat (1990)
• The Little Black Box (1990)
• The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990)
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990)
• The Minority Report (1991)
• Second Variety (1991)
• The Eye of the Sibyl (1992)
• The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002)
• Paycheck (2004)
• Vintage PKD (2006)
• The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011)

• "Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952)
• "The Gun" (1952)
• "The Skull" (1952)
• "The Little Movement" (1952)
• "The Defenders" (1953)
• "Mr. Spaceship" (1953)
• "Piper in the Woods" (1953)
• "Roog" (1953)
• "The Infinites" (1953)
• "Second Variety" (1953)
• "Colony" (1953)
• "The Cookie Lady" (1953)
• "Impostor" (1953)
• "Paycheck" (1953)
• "The Preserving Machine" (1953)
• "Expendable" (1953)
• "The Indefatigable Frog" (1953)
• "The Commuter" (1953)
• "Out in the Garden" (1953)
• "The Great C" (1953)
• "The King of the Elves" (1953)
• "The Trouble with Bubbles" (1953)
• "The Variable Man" (1953)
• "The Impossible Planet" (1953)
• "Planet for Transients" (1953)
• "The Builder" (1953)
• "Tony and the Beetles" (1953)
• "The Hanging Stranger" (1953)
• "Prize Ship" (1954)
• "Beyond the Door" (1954)
• "The Crystal Crypt" (1954)
• "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (1954)
• "The Golden Man" (1954)
• "Sales Pitch" (1954)
• "Breakfast at Twilight" (1954)
• "The Crawlers" (1954)
• "Exhibit Piece" (1954)
• "Adjustment Team" (1954)
• "Shell Game" (1954)
• "Meddler" (1954)
• "A World of Talent" (1954)
• "The Last of the Masters" (1954)
• "Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
• "The Father-thing" (1954)
• "Strange Eden" (1954)
• "The Turning Wheel" (1954)
• "Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
• "Human Is" (1955)
• "War Veteran" (1955)
• "Captive Market" (1955)
• "Nanny" (1955)
• "The Chromium Fence" (1955)
• "Service Call" (1955)
• "The Mold of Yancy" (1955)
• "Autofac" (1955)
• "Psi-man Heal My Child!" (1955)
• "The Hood Maker" (1955)
• "The Minority Report" (1956)
• "Pay for the Printer" (1956)
• "A Glass of Darkness (The Cosmic Puppets)" (1956)
• "The Unreconstructed M" (1957)
• "Null-O" (1958)
• "Explorers We" (1959)
• "Recall Mechanism" (1959)
• "Fair Game" (1959)
• "War Game" (1959)
• "All We Marsmen" (1963)
• "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" (1963)
• "The Days of Perky Pat" (1963)
• "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" (1963)
• "Waterspider" (1964)
• "Novelty Act" (1964)
• "Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (1964)
• "The War with the Fnools" (1964)
• "What the Dead Men Say" (1964)
• "Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964)
• "Cantata 140" (1964)
• "The Unteleported Man" (1964)
• "The Little Black Box" (1964)
• "Retreat Syndrome" (1965)
• "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965)
• "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
• "Holy Quarrel" (1966)
• "Faith of Our Fathers" (1967)
• "Not by Its Cover" (1968)
• "The Electric Ant" (1969)
• "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum" (1969)
• "The Pre-persons" (1974)
• "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" (1974)
• "The Exit Door Leads In" (1979)
• "Rautavaara's Case" (1980)
• "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (1980)
• "The Eye of the Sibyl" (1987)
• "Stability" (1987)

• Only Apparently Real (1986 biography)
• I Am Alive and You Are Dead (1993 biography)
• Your Name Here (2008 drama film)

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