Quicker Than the Eye

Quicker Than the Eye (ISBN 0-380-97380-4, 1996 Avon Books) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Background
The anthology features 21 stories that had not yet appeared in book form. Quicker Than the Eye features a mix of 11 old and 10 new stories.

Contents

 * "Unterderseaboat Doktor", which features, as a psychiatrist, a former submarine captain in Hitler's undersea fleet, making connections between sub-marine and sub-conscious.
 * "Zaharoff/Richter Mark V", a speculation on why so many major cities are in such dangerous locales.
 * "Remember Sascha?"
 * "Another Fine Mess", a homage to Laurel and Hardy; a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair".
 * "The Electrocution"
 * "Hopscotch"
 * "The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood.
 * "That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes
 * "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
 * "Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
 * "Dorian In Excelsis", which pays homage to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * "No News, Or What Killed the Dog?"
 * "The Witch Door"
 * "The Ghost in the Machine"
 * "At the End Of the Ninth Year"
 * "Bug"
 * "Once More, Legato"
 * "Exchange"
 * "Free Dirt"
 * "Last Rites"
 * "The Other Highway"
 * "Make Haste To Live: An Afterword", in which the author writes of writing and the back-stories of some of the stories in this collection.