The America edition has the following stories: This is the rather wonderful framing device which loosely introduces this collection of eighteen science fiction short stories. Not only this, but after sundown the tattoos start moving, each one telling a wondrous story. The illustrated man has tried every way he can to remove them – scraping them, using acid – nothing works. Relaxing in the sun, the stranger takes off his shirt to reveal that his body is absolutely covered in wonderful tattoos, lurid El Greco designs painted in sulphurous colours, inked into him by a crazy old woman who, he claims, was a traveller from the future. The narrator invites him to share his simple dinner. Over the brow of a hill comes a stranger. The unnamed narrator is on a walking holiday in Wisconsin.
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