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Hugo and Locus Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1974. The story can also be found in the anthology The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75) (1977), edited by Isaac Asimov. it is included in the collections Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975), The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987), and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared as a limmited editon chapbook in 1980, which was quickly by a reprint in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1980. The story is included in the collection Shatterday (1980).

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: The Song of the Soul - (1971) - essay
• 11 - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - short story
• 30 - The Discarded - (1959) - short story
• 46 - Deeper Than the Darkness - (1957) - novelette
• 72 - Blind Lightning - (1956) - short story
• 94 - All the Sounds of Fear - (1962) - short story
• 107 - The Silver Corridor - (1956) - short story
• 129 - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - short story
• 144 - Bright Eyes - (1965) - short story

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Song of the Soul - essay by Harlan Ellison
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967)
• The Discarded - (1959)
• Deeper Than the Darkness - (1957)
• Blind Lightning - (1956)
• All the Sounds of Fear - (1962)
• The Silver Corridor - (1956)
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965)
• Bright Eyes - (1965)
• Are You Listening? - (1958)
• Try a Dull Knife - (1968)
• In Lonely Lands - (1959)
• Eyes of Dust - (1959)
• Nothing for My Noon Meal - (1958)
• O Ye of Little Faith - (1968)
• The Time of the Eye - (1959)
• Life Hutch - (1956)
• The Very Last Day of a Good Woman - (1958)
• Night Vigil - (1957)
• Lonelyache - (1964)
• Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes - (1969)

At the beginning of the 1980's Harlan Ellison agreed to do a regular column for the LA WEEKLY on the condition that they publish whatever he wrote, without revising it or suggesting rewrites. This collection collects what he wrote under those conditions. He writes in a conversational voice, but he is impassioned, persuasive, abusive and hilarious by turns.

The Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls... Razor sharp... piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear." The sixteen stories collected here are spread over the farthest stretches of time and space, but even the bleakest of them is warmed by a passionate faith in the endurance of life and its ultimate possibilities.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Wind Took Your Answer Away - essay
• Paladin of the Lost Hour - (1985) - novelette
• Footsteps - (1980) - shortstory
• Escapegoat - (1983) - shortstory
• When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot - (1982) - shortstory
• Broken Glass - (1981) - shortstory
• On the Slab - (1981) - shortstory
• Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish - (1982) - shortstory
• The Region Between - (1970) - novella
• Laugh Track - (1984) - shortstory
• Eidolons - (1988) - shortstory
• Soft Monkey - (1987) - shortstory
• Stuffing - (1982) - shortstory
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole - (1985) - shortstory
• Quicktime - (1985) - shortstory
• The Avenger of Death - (1988) - shortstory
• Chained to the Fast Lane in the Red Queen's Race - (1983) - shortstory
• The Function of Dream Sleep - (1988) - novelette

The New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magizine said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep.

But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love ("Cold Friend", "Kiss of Fire", "Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman"), hate ("Knox", "Silent in Gehenna"), sex ("Catman", "Erotophobia"), lost childhood ("One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty") and into such bizarre subjects as the problems of blue-skinned, eleven-armed Yiddish aliens, what it's like to witness the end of the world and what happens on the day the planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand.

Oh yeah, this one's a doozy!

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Approaching Ellison - (1974) - essay by Michael Crichton
• Introduction: Reaping the Whirlwind - (1974) - essay
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970)
• Knox - (1974)
• Cold Friend - (1973)
• Kiss of Fire - (1973)
• Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman - (1962)
• I'm Looking for Kadak - (1974)
• Silent in Gehenna - (1971)
• Erotophobia - (1971)
• Ecowareness - (1974)
• Catman - (1974)
• Hindsight: 480 Seconds - (1973)

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appaered in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1972. The story can also be found in the anthology Study War No More (1977), edited by Joe Haldeman. It is included in the collections Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1970. The story can also be found in the Partners in Wonder (1971, Ellison) and Future Crime (1990, Bova).

Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see 'em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he's gone.

The great English writer Michael Moorcock--and if his name does not leave you dumbstruck with awe, you should move on--called Ellison a "fox in the sf hen-coop" whose presence will "produce a brighter, faster hen, with improved survival characteristics, laying a tastier, more nourishing egg" and went on to say Ellison was "a brave and lively little beast, who makes a great show of himself to the hounds, but remains too wary ever to lead them to his lair."

The brilliant novelist Joanna Russ, in admiring frustration, opined that Ellison's stories "have an assault on you," but complained that "they're not like a piece of sculpture that you can stop and walk around and look at from all sides." Ellison's reply: "Absolutely not; I want them to grab you by the throat and tear off parts of your body."

Ellison's a double agent who lures you into the bush, and when you blink, he's gone; you don't know whether to turn left or right, or just dig a hole. He crafts enigmas set to entrap you. When Ellison sees where a story is going, he figures--since he's writing for the smartest readers alive"you do, too. So he stops and turns left. Or right. Or widdershins. Or digs a cave with 200 tunnels.

"Can & Can'tankerous" gathers ten previously uncollected tales from the fifth and sixth decades of Harlan Ellison's professional writing career: a written-in-the-window endeavor that invites re-reading from the start before you've even finished it; a second entry in his (now) ongoing abcedarian sequence; a "lost" pulp tale re-cast as a retro-fable; a melancholy meditation for departed friend and fellow legend, Ray Bradbury; a 2001 revision of a 1956 original; an absurdist ascent toward enlightenment (or its gluten-free substitute); a 200-word exercise in not following the directions as written (with a special introduction by Neil Gaiman that weighs in at four times the word count of its subject); a fantastical lament for a bottom-line world; the 2011 Nebula Award-winning short story; and Ellison's most recent offering, a fusion of fact and fiction that calls to mind Russ's frustration and Moorcock's metaphor while offering a solution to the story's enigma in plain view.

Strokes be damned! Ellison's still here! HE's still writing! And with more new books published in the last ten years than any preceding decade of his career, his third act is proving to be the kind other living legends envy.

Table of Contents:

• How Interesting: A Tiny Man
• Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts
• Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
• Introduction to "Loose Cannon" by Neil Gaiman
• Loose Cannon, or Rubber Duckies from Space
• From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet
• Weariness
• The Toad Prince, or, Sex Queen of the Martian Pleasure-domes
• Incognita, Inc.
• Goodbye to All That
• He Who Grew Up Reading Sherlock Holmes

Winner of the 1995 Stoker award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

This short story originally appeared in Lore #1, Summer 1995. It has subsequently appeared in a number of other anthologies and collections.

When he's down, kick for the head and groin. Avoid cops. Play it cool. There aren't many rules in the primer for gang kids, but they all count. They're all easily understood, because they use a simple and sound philosophy-it's a stinking life, so get your kicks while you can. The gang is home, take what you want, tell them nothing-and don't get caught. Two gangs of juvenile delinquents run riot in New York City. They constantly try to outdo each other with their clothes, weapons, language and lack of morals. They are not just kids playing at war-they mean business. The only person who can infiltrate the gang is someone they can trust, someone like themselves. Someone who knows how to handle a knife and a gun...

Locus Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Omni, December 1978. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 (1979), edited by Terry Carr and The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), edited by Ellen Datlow. It is included in the collections Shatterday (1980) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Locus Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1975. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 (1976), edited by Terry Carr. It is included in the collections Strange Wine (1978) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.

Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction.

The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979).

When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction. His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat... as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience. -Gallery

"Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing." -Richmond Times-Dispatch

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars - essay
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - shortstory
• Along the Scenic Route - (1969) - shortstory
• On the Downhill Side - (1972) - shortstory
• O Ye of Little Faith - (1968) - shortstory
• Neon - (1973) - shortstory
• Basilisk - (1972) - shortstory
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette
• Corpse - (1972) - shortstory
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin - (1968) - shortstory
• Delusion for a Dragon Slayer - (1966) - shortstory
• The Face of Helene Bournouw - (1960) - shortstory
• Bleeding Stones - (1973) - shortstory
• At the Mouse Circus - (1971) - shortstory
• The Place with No Name - (1969) - shortstory
• Paingod - (1964) - shortstory
• Ernest and the Machine God - (1968) - shortstory
• Rock God - (1969) - shortstory
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in a magazine called Knight, September 1966. The story is included in the collections I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967), Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968), and Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975).

Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition. This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic.

Among the gems are "All The Sounds of Fear", "The Sky is Burning", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" and "In Lonely Lands". Though they stand tall on their own merits they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than forty years later.

One of the most bizarre and original fictional concepts ever attempted, this book is a remarkable tour de force for a quintet of today's top writers of speculative fiction. From a common story- hook--Bailey's death at the Euthanasia Center--each author was commissioned to extrapolate his own individual vision of Bailey's fate. No two even remotely resemble one another, and with consummate individuality each of the stories validates beyond doubt the incredible fertility of both the science fiction genre and its singular practitioners.

Table of Contents:

• The Fatal Fulfillment - (1970) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Murder Will In - (1970) - novelette by Frank Herbert
• Maverick - (1970) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Region Between - (1970) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Of Death What Dreams - (1970) - novelette by Keith Laumer

From the Land of Fear: 11 Side Trips to the Dark Edge of Imagination. Eleven tales by master storyteller Harlan Ellison. A look back at stories not included in other collections. In his introduction, the author says: "I would not write them this way were I writing them today. Several of them I find painfully amateurish. Most of the stories were written in the late Fifties. When I was learning my craft." From the Land of Fear has at least one (or, in fact, two) standout piece, "Soldier," a clever anti-war tale included both in short-story form and as a screenplay Ellison wrote for TV's The Outer Limits.

The original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2003), edited by Michael Chabon. It can also be found in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2005, edited by Jack Dann and the collection Can & Can'tankerous (2015).

Everybody's entitled to his own opinion, right? WRONG!! He or she is entitled to an informed opinion-so if you don't like being argued with, if you don't like a tital stranger telling you that your opinion is stupid, and you're fulla crap, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! Because this guy never learned how to lie, and he is either adored or printed on hate posters in Cheney's office, Ku Klux Klan dens, schlock poroducers' bathrooms, and those idiot sites on the internet that truckle to ultra-maroons.

Nebula Award winning short story. It originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, February 2010. It can also be found in Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel and the collections The Top of the Volcano (2015) and Can & Can'tankerous (2015).

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition.

Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes". Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Mover, the Shaker - (1967) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• Foreword: How Science Fiction Saved Me from a Life of Crime - (1967) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory
• Big Sam Was My Friend - (1958) - shortstory
• Eyes of Dust - (1959) - shortstory
• World of the Myth - (1964) - novelette
• Lonelyache - (1964) - shortstory
• Delusion for a Dragon Slayer - (1966) - shortstory
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette

Hugo Award winning short story. It originally appeared in If, March 1967. The story has been reprinted many times. It can, among others, be found in the anthologies:

• World's Best Science Fiction: 1968, edited by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
• The Mirror of Infinity: A Critics' Anthology of Science Fiction (1970), edited by Robert Silverberg
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-70) (1971), edited by Isaac Asimov
• A Pocketful of Stars (1971), edited by Damon Knight
• The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here (1979), edited by James E. Gunn
• Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology (1983), edited by Eric S. Rabkin
• Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology (1986), edited by Joseph D. Olander, Martin Harry Greenberg and Frederik Pohl
• American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's to Now (2009), edited by Peter Straub

It is included in the collections:

• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (1967)
• Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (1971)
• The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987)
• The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015)

BFA, Hugo, Locus and Nebula Award winning and WFA nominated short story. The story was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1977 and has been reprinted many times. It can be found in the anthologies:

• The 1978 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
• The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978), edited by Terry Carr
• Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980) edited by Samuel R. Delany
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective (1980) edited by Edward L. Ferman
• A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova
• Strange Dreams (1993), edited by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 (2014), edited by Gordon Van Gelder

It can also be found in the collections Shatterday (1980), The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987), Troublemakers (2001) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Love has ten thousand names and a million different faces. History will surely agree that America's most destructive contribution to 20th century living has been that damaged product called plastic romance. It twists and savages us. After a lifetime of lies about what love is supposed to be, are you finally angry and depressed enough to be part of a "recall" on that shabby, mildewed merchandise? If so, join the remarkable Harlan Ellison as he dissects the soul and body of love in Our Time. In 16 scalpel-sharp stories that range from the legalized whorehouses of Nevada to the steaming lynch towns of Georgia, from the abortion mills of Tijuana to the sound stages of Hollywood, the writer whom Oui magazine charmingly named "the perpetually angry young punk of the bizarre" rips the Saran-Wrap off love and hate and sin and twittering passion-to disclose the raw meat beneath. Here are sixteen poisoned arrows from fantasy's most improbable Cupid in which he presents a world of hearts & flowers guaranteed to revise your thinking about where love is found and how it looks.

Medea is a collection of 11 stories set on a world created by science fiction authors at the instigation of Harlan Ellison. The scientific details established by Hal Clement, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson and Frederick Phol are also included. There is a transcript of the idea session held at a graduate seminar in which Frank Herbert, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Silverberg and Theodore Sturgeon discussed their interpretations of Medea and invented story ideas, helped by contributions from the audience. Some of the bizarre concepts used in the stories include cannibalism as a means of sharing life memories and death by combustion as the ultimate transcendental experience. These ideas are not used for shock value but rather to create and explore alien cultures. The stories themselves are arranged chronologically, from the early days of human colonization on Medea to the time of a cataclysm that will wipe out any remaining inhabitants.

Table of Contents:

• Cosmic Hod-Carriers - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Introduction: The Specs - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Basic Concepts, Astrophysics, Geology - (1975) - essay by Hal Clement
• Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Geography, Nomenclature, Biology - (1975) - essay by Poul Anderson
• Biology, Ecology, Xenology - (1975) - essay by Larry Niven
• Xenology, Sociology, Politics, Theology, Mathematics - (1975) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Concept Seminar - essay by Robert Silverberg, Frank Herbert, Thomas M. Disch, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon
• The Extrapolation, the Questions - essay by Audience
• Second Thoughts - essay by Larry Niven, Thomas M. Disch, Hal Clement. Frederik Pohl and Poul Anderson
• Farside Station - (1978) - novella by Jack Williamson
• Flare Time - (1978) - novella by Larry Niven
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole - (1985) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Swanilda's Song - (1978) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Seasoning - (1978) - novelette by Hal Clement
• Concepts - (1978) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• Songs of a Sentient Flute - (1979) - novelette by Frank Herbert
• Hunter's Moon - (1978) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Promise - (1983) - shortfiction by Kate Wilhelm
• Why Dolphins Don't Bite - (1980) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• Waiting for the Earthquake - (1981) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Contributors - essay by Harlan Ellison

Stoker and Locus Award winning and WFA, Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeaerd in Omni, October 1993, and was published as a chapbook in the same year. The story can also be found in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 5 (1994), edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell. It is included in the collections Slippage: Precariously Poised, Previously Uncollected Stories (1997) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won't be able to ignore or forget.

You have nothing to fear but fear itself! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love by an amoral man. It comes with the threat of impending nuclear holocaust; with the slithering shadows in the city streets; with the ripoff artists who lie in wait behind every television commercial.

Fear is the erratic behavior of all the nut cases and whackos walking the streets-they look just like you and me and your lover and your mother-and all they need is a wrong word and there they go to the top of an apartment building with a sniperscope'd rifle. Fear is all around you. You have nothing to fear but fear itself, right? Sure. The only trouble is, the minute you get all the rational fears taken care of, all battened down and secure, here comes something new.

Like what? Well, like the special fears generated in these 16 incredible stories. Fear described as it's never been described before, by the startling imagination of Harlan Ellison, master fantasist, tour-guide through the land of dreadful visions, unerring observer of human folly and supernatural diabolism. Or, quoting the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times, Ellison's "stories are kaleidoscopic in their range, breathtaking in their beauty, hideous in their deformity, insulting in their arrogance and unarguable in the accuracy of their insight."

And here are 16 new terrors to scare the bejeezus out of you!

Table of Contents:

• Blood/Thoughts - (1975) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973)
• Eddie, You're My Friend - non-genre - (1975)
• Status Quo at Troyden's - non-genre - (1958)
• Nedra at f:5.6 - non-genre - (1957)
• Opposites Attract - non-genre - (1957)
• Toe the Line - non-genre - (1957)
• Down in the Dark - non-genre - (1967)
• Pride in the Profession - non-genre - (1966)
• The Children's Hour - (1958)
• White Trash Don't Exist - non-genre - (1956)
• Thicker Than Blood - non-genre - (1958)
• Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column - non-genre - (1965)
• Promises of Laughter - non-genre - (1969)
• Ormond Always Pays His Bills - non-genre - (1957)
• The Man on the Juice Wagon - non-genre - (1963)
• Tired Old Man - non-genre - (1975)

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Universe 2 (1972), edited by Terry Carr. It can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Eight (1973), edited by Isaac Asimov, Unicorns! (1982), edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, and the collections Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975) and Troublemakers (2001).

A brilliant collection of Harlan Ellison's short fiction, featuring an introduction by Norman Spinrad.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: The Frontiers of Edgeville - (1970) - essay by Norman Spinrad
• Brinkmanship - (1970) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes - (1969)
• Final Trophy - (1957)
• !!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!! - (1968)
• Ernest and the Machine God - (1968)
• Tiny Ally - (1957)
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World - (1967)
• Blind Lightning - (1956)
• 3 Faces of Fear - (1966) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Blank ... - (1957)
• Night Vigil - (1957)
• Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center - (1961)
• Rock God - (1969)
• Afterword: Back of the Book - essay by Harlan Ellison

Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor--you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor."

Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down...they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth. Touching and gentle and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths.

"Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read."
--Pete Hamill

"Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination."
--Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

Hugo and Locus Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. The story was the basis for a 1985 episode of the television series Twilight Zone.

It originally appeared in Universe 15 (1985), edited by Terry Carr, and was reprinted in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 (1986) edited Arthur W. Saha, New Stories from the Twilight Zone (1991), edited by Martin H. Greenberg, The New Hugo Winners, Volume II: (1986-88) (1992), edited by Isaac Asimov, and The American Fantasy Tradition (2002) edited by Brian M. Thomsen. It is included in the collections Angry Candy (1988), The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison.

Robert Bloch / Ben Bova / Algis Budrys / Avram Davidson / Samuel R. Delany / Joe L. Hensley / Keith Laumer / William Rotsler / Robert Sheckley / Robert Silverberg / Henry Slesar / Theodore Sturgeon / A. E. Van Vogt / Roger Zelazny / and Harlan Ellison, unassisted.

If you mix Ellison with wild talents like those names listed above you've got a book as unique as the Abominable Snowman. Here is the first collection of collaborative stories ever created, each deranged vision complete with introduction (in the patented Ellison manner) explaining how the story was written and who gets the blame. The lunatic mind of Harlan Ellison strikes again.

Table of Contents:

• Sons of Janus - (1971) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg - (1968) - novelette by Robert Sheckley and Harlan Ellison
• Brillo - (1970) - novelette by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
• A Toy for Juliette - (1967) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Scherzo for Schizoids: Notes on a Collaboration - (1965) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Up Christopher to Madness - (1965) - novelette by Harlan Ellison and Avram Davidson
• Runesmith - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon
• Rodney Parish for Hire - (1962) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Joe L. Hensley
• The Kong Papers - (1969) - shortfiction by Harlan Ellison and William Rotsler
• The Human Operators - novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
• Survivor No. 1 - (1959) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Henry Slesar
• The Power of the Nail - (1968) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany
• Wonderbird - (1957) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Algis Budrys
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Street Scene - (1969) - shortstory by Keith Laumer and Harlan Ellison
• Come to Me Not in Winter's White - (1969) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny

The Starlost: 2785 A.D.

They had banished Devon from the world of Cypress Corners because he dared to challenge the Elders. And when he defied them again, they hunted him like an animal.

Then Devon stumbled on a secret passage in the hills. His whole life changed in that moment. For Devon had accidentally discovered the giant ark that was ferrying not only Cypress Corners but all other Earth cultures to another planet.

What Devon did not know was that there had been a terrible accident aboard the spaceship. The gear had been damaged, the crew dead. And the ark and all its worlds were now headed straight for destruction.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette.

A lonely gambler puts his last dollar into a slot machine which has been possessed by the soul of a gold-digging woman.

It originally appeared in Knight, May 1967. The story can be found in the anthologies:

• Best SF: 1967, edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
• Nebula Award Stories Three (1968), edited by Roger Zelazny
• The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1983) edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg

It is included in the collections:

• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (1967)
• Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975)
• The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987)

Hugo and Nebula Award winning short story.

A rebel inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities and the Ticktockman cannot accept the Harlequin's presence in his perfectly ordered world.

The story originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, December 1965. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:

• Nebula Award Stories 1965 (1966), edited by Damon Knight
• World's Best Science Fiction: 1966, edtied by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
• The Tenth Galaxy Reader (1967), edited by Frederik Pohl
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 2 (1971), edtied by Isaac Asimov
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova
• The Science Fiction Century (1997), David G. Hartwell
• Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001), edited by Orson Scott Card
• Future Crimes (2003), edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories (2011), edited by John Joseph Adams
• The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer

The story is included in the collections:

• Paingod and Other Delusions (1965)
• Alone Against Tomorrow (1971)
• The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987)
• Troublemakers (2001)
• The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015)

Harlan Ellison was awarded an honorary degree from UCLA for the excellence of his imaginative writings. Some smartass might even call him "Dr." Ellison. But only once. Because even though Ellison has come a long way since he started writing in the Fifties, he's still the street fighter who assumed a phony name and joined The Barons, the toughest gang of juvenile delinquents in Brooklyn's Red Hook area, just so he could write a novel about life in the slums.

The real-life story of those ten weeks in hell was published as Memos from Purgatory. But the actual novel that came out of that period has been out-of-print for quite some time. Now, with its original title restored, e-reads is pleased to re-issue Web of the City, the book by a streetwise "Dr." who risked his tail and talent to write about the dark underbelly of city life.

"Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read."
--Pete Hamill

"Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination."
--Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for outstanding teleplay.

In this, his thirty-seventh book, setting down as never before the mortal dreads we all share, Harlan Ellison has put together his best work to date: sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award-winners), totaling a marvel-filled 105,000 words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years.

"Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read."
--Pete Hamill

"Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination."
--Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Mortal Dreads - essay
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory
• How's the Night Life on Cissalda? - (1977) - shortstory
• Flop Sweat - (1979) - shortstory
• Would You Do It for a Penny? - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Haskell Barkin
• The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge - (1978) - shortstory
• Shoppe Keeper - (1977) - shortstory
• All the Lies That Are My Life - (1980) - novella
• Django - (1978) - shortstory
• Count the Clock That Tells the Time - (1978) - shortstory
• In the Fourth Year of the War - (1979) - shortstory
• Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage - (1977) - shortstory
• All the Birds Come Home to Roost - (1979) - shortstory
• Opium - (1978) - shortstory
• The Other Eye of Polyphemus - (1977) - shortstory
• The Executioner of the Malformed Children - (1978) - shortstory
• Shatterday - (1975) - shortstory

Nebula Award nominated short story. It was originally published in the magazine Gallery, September 1975, and in Science Fiction Monthly v2 #8, 1975. The story can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977), edited by Gerald W. Page, and New Stories from the Twilight Zone (1991), edited by Martin H. Greenberg, as well as the collection Shatterday (1980).

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Orbit 4 (1968), edited Damon Knight. The story can also be found in the anthology American Gothic Tales (1996), edited by Joyce Carol Oates, as well as the collections The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969), Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975) and The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987).

Harlan Ellison-master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent-has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays-nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing-that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays.

Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The award-winning novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece, surrounded by screenplays, an introduction by the author, interspersed segments of autobiographical narrative, and such provocatively titled entries as "The Man Who Rowed Columbus Ashore," "Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You," "Crazy As a Soup Sandwich," "Chatting With Anubis," "The Dragon on the Bookshelf," (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg), "The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams," "Pulling Hard Time," and "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Fault in My Lines - essay
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - (1991) - shortstory
• Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You - (1996) - shortstory
• Crazy as a Soup Sandwich - (1989) - shortfiction
• Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep - (1991) - shortstory
• The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 1 - shortstory
• The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change: Version 2 - (1994) - shortstory
• The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke - (1996) - shortstory
• The Museum on Cyclops Avenue - (1995) - shortstory
• Go Toward the Light - (1996) - shortstory
• Mefisto in Onyx - (1993) - novella
• Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World - (1992) - shortstory
• Chatting With Anubis - (1995) - shortstory
• The Few, the Proud - (1987) - shortstory
• The Deadly "Nackles" Affair - (1987) - essay
• Nackles - (1964) - shortstory by Donald E. Westlake
• Nackles (teleplay) - (1987) - shortfiction
• Sensible City - (1994) - shortstory
• The Dragon on the Bookshelf - (1995) - shortstory and Robert Silverberg
• Keyboard - (1995) - shortstory
• Jane Doe #112 - (1990) - shortstory
• The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams - shortstory
• Pulling Hard Time - (1995) - shortstory
• Scartaris, June 28th - (1990) - novelette
• She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother - (1988) - shortstory
• Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral - (1995) - shortstory

Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here you'll find twenty of his very best stories and essays (including the four-part "Scenes from the Real World), an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, he created for NBC; Tales from the Mountains of Madness; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life: sex, violence, and labor relations. With a knockout, an absoloutely killer, Foreword by Stephen King.

Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1975. School Library Journal said the same thing. This modern master of the macabre invites lovers of Poe, Kafka and Borges to a gourmet's sampling of the headiest wine since Montressor's Amontiillado.

Strange Wine: the quaffing of deep drafts of imagination...unsettling visions by the man whom Pete Hamill called "the Dark Prince of American letters." Fifteen previously uncollected tales in which the Pied Piper of Hamelin is come again, this time to pipe the Apocalypse for humanity; the spirits of executed Nazi war criminals walk Manhattan streets; the damned soul of a Lizzie Borden-like murderess escapes from Hell; a horny young man is haunted by the ghost of his Yiddishe Momma; an amoral womanizer seeks his awful destiny among the derelicts and alligators living in the sewers beneath the city; gremlins write the fantasies of a gone-dry writer; the nephew of The Shadow wreaks terrible vengeance on the New York Literary Establishment; and the exquisite Dr. D'ArqueAngel injects her patients with immunizing doses of the distillate of death.

Hugo Award winning short story. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, June 1968. The story can also be found in the anthologies Dark Stars (1969), edited by Robert Silverberg and The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-70) (1971), edited by Isaac Asimov. It is included in the collections The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

"It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting."
--Harlan Ellison

15 stories by Harlan Ellison

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Waves in Rio - (1969) - essay
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - (1968) - novelette
• Along the Scenic Route - (1969) - shortstory
• Phoenix - (1969) - shortstory
• Asleep: With Still Hands - (1968) - novelette
• Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R. - (1969) - novelette
• Try a Dull Knife - (1968) - shortstory
• The Pitll Pawob Division - (1968) - shortstory
• The Place with No Name - shortstory
• White on White - (1968) - shortstory
• Run for the Stars - (1957) - novelette
• Are You Listening? - (1958) - shortstory
• S.R.O. - (1957) - shortstory
• Worlds to Kill - (1968) - novelette
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin - (1968) - shortstory
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella

Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it's more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author of these stories knows, that you're scared to admit, is that reality and fantasy have flip-flopped. They have switched places.

The stories that scare you today are the ones about rapists and thugs, psychos who'll carve you for a dollar and hypes who'll bust your head to get fixed. Glenn Ford's world was yesterday, and Bronson's is today. And in the stalking midnight of this book, one of America's top writers, Harlan Ellison, invades he shadows of both!

Locus and Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1973. The story can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series (1973), edited by Edward L. Ferman
• The 1974 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 (1974), edited by Terry Carr
• Nebula Award Stories Nine (1974), edited by Kate Wilhelm
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75) (1977), edited by Isaac Asimov
• The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology (2009), edtied by Gordon Van Gelder

It is included in the collections:

• Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods (1975)
• The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987)
• The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015)

In Egyptian mythology, Iai is th rebel, the tester, the stubborn resisting force of intellect and insight which donkey-like stands its ground, refusing to budge, and challenges what is accepted and valued and thought to be sensible and true. This book is a portrait of one artist as sublime Rebel. Fortunately, it doesnt have to be a "Best of" collection (though it does contain much of his finest work). Rather, it is a sound representation, "warts and all," of the writing of someone who is perfectly, vigorously, cast as the Iai of his age.

Though Harlan's work is widely known and applauded, not enough is made of the sense of social responsibility that is central to it. In fact, this dimension often seems to be deliberately overlooked and the major thrust of his fantasy trivialized. He deals in ideas, sometimes so full of love and compassion that they stun with their simple honesty; sometimes set with barbs and hooks that catch and tear and make us gasp and make us feel. Dr. Johnson would have been proud. Shakespeare would have smiled fondly. Because that's the dimension of achievement occurring here. Ellison is as close to the pulse of his age as Chaucer and Shakespeare and Dickens ever came to theirs.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Sublime Rebel - essay by Terry Dowling
• Beginnings - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Sword of Parmagon - (1949) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Gloconda - (1949) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Wilder One - (1955) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Saga of Machine Gun Joe - (1955) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Glowworm - (1956) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Life Hutch - (1956) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• S.R.O. - (1957) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Worlds of Terror - essay by Terry Dowling
• Lonelyache - (1964) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Punky & the Yale Men - (1966) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• A Prayer for No One's Enemy - (1966) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Worlds of Love - essay by Terry Dowling
• In Lonely Lands - (1959) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Time of the Eye - (1959) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Grail - (1981) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• That New Old-Time Religion - essay by Terry Dowling
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Corpse - (1972) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• A Stab of Merriment - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Voice in the Garden - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Erotophobia - (1971) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Mom - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Ecowareness - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists - (1982) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept. - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. - (1986) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Trouble With Women - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Very Last Day of a Good Woman - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Valerie: A True Memoir - (1972) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Other Eye of Polyphemus - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• All the Birds Come Home to Roost - (1979) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• To the Mattresses With Mean Demons - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Tombs - (1961) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• "Our Little Miss" - (1970) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• A Love Song to Jerry Falwell - (1984) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Telltale Tics and Tremors - (1977) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail - (1978) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Rococo Technology - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Sky Is Burning - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Along the Scenic Route - (1969) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Knox - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Heart's Blood - essay by Terry Dowling
• From Alabamy, with Hate - (1965) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• My Father - (1972) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• My Mother - (1976) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Tired Old Man - (1975) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Gopher in the Gilly - (1982) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Strange Wine - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie - (1968) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay - (1972) - shortfiction by Harlan Ellison
• The Man on the Mushroom - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool - (1978) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Petards & Hangings - essay by Terry Dowling
• Soldier - (1957) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Night of Delicate Terrors - (1961) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin - (1968) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• At the Mouse Circus - (1971) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shadows from the Past - essay by Terry Dowling
• Free With This Box! - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Final Shtick - (1960) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Contracts on the Soul - essay by Terry Dowling
• Daniel White for the Greater Good - (1961) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Neither Your Jenny nor Mine - (1964) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Classics - essay by Terry Dowling
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Dark Liberation - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Thick Red Moment - (1982) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge - (1978) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Driving in the Spikes - (1983) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Afterword - essay by Harlan Ellison

Locus Award winning and Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeard in the collection Angry Candy (1988) and was reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1988. The story can also be found in the anthologies California Sorcery (1999) edited William F. Nolan and William Schafer and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It is included in the collection The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

A major collection of Harlan Ellison's incomparable, troublemaking, uncompromising, confrontational essays plus a foreword by award-winning author Robert Crais.

Nebula Awardd nominated short story. It first appeared in The 1991 World Fantasy Convention and was reprinted in Omni, July 1992. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and Nebula Awards 29 (1995), edited by Pamela Sargent. It is included in the collections Slippage: Precariously Poised, Previously Uncollected Stories (1997) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Table of Contents:

• 8 - Introduction, in Brief (The Time of the Eye) - essay
• 9 - Are You Listening? - (1958) - short story
• 25 - Try a Dull Knife - (1968) - short story
• 38 - In Lonely Lands - (1959) - short story
• 45 - Eyes of Dust - (1959) - short story
• 54 - Nothing for My Noon Meal - (1958) - short story
• 69 - O Ye of Little Faith - (1968) - short story
• 79 - The Time of the Eye - (1959) - short story
• 90 - Life Hutch - [Earth-Kyba War] - (1956) - short story
• 105 - The Very Last Day of a Good Woman - (1958) - short story
• 114 - Night Vigil - (1955) - short story
• 125 - Lonelyache - (1964) - short story
• 147 - Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes - (1969) - short story

"Only connect," E.M. Forster famously said, and Harlan Ellison was canny enough to make that the lifeblood of his achievement from the get-go.

New, fresh and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story brave, daring, surprising again, brought an edge of the gritty and the strange, the erudite and the street-smart, found ways to make words truly come alive again in an over-worded world.

From the watershed of the '50s and '60s when the world found its dynamic new identity, to a self-imitating, sadly all too derivative present, he has kept storytelling cool and hip, exhilarating, unexpected yet always vital, able to get under your skin and change your life.

And now we have it. "The Top of the Volcano" is the collection we hoped would come along eventually, twenty-three of Harlan's very best stories, award-winners every one, brought together in a single volume at last. There s the unforgettable power of "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" and "Mefisto in Onyx," the heart-rending pathos of "Jeffty Is Five" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour," the chilling terror of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," the ingenuity and startling intimacy of "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans..."

These stories are full of the light and life of someone with things worth saying and the skills to do it, presented in the book we had to have--not just a Best-of (though given what's on offer it may just fall out that way) but in one easy-to-grab volume perfect for newbies, long-time fans and seasoned professionals alike to remind them just how it can be done.

Table of Contents

• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968)
• A Boy and His Dog (1969)
• The Region Between (1970)
• Basilisk (1972)
• The Deathbird (1973)
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973)
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (1974)
• Croatoan (1975)
• Jeffty is Five (1977)
• Count the Clock That Tells the Time (1978)
• Djinn, No Chaser (1982)
• Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (1985)
• Soft Monkey (1987)
• Eidolons (1988)
• The Function of Dream Sleep (1988)
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (1991)
• Mefisto in Onyx (1993)
• Chatting with Anubis (1995)
• The Human Operators (1971) with A.E. Van Vogt
• How Interesting: A Tiny Man (2010)

A special new collection of Ellison's short stories, selected especially for this volume by the author, including the newly revised and expanded 6,500 word tale "Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts."

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison's classic stories-chosen by the author-that will introduce new readers to a writer described by the New York Times as having "the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind."

Includes the award-winning stories "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" and "Deeper Than the Darkness"

The Man with Nine Lives

He mastered the maze of the cosmos.

A Touch of Infinity

Collection including the stories:

• Run for the Stars - (1957)
• Back to the Drawing Boards - (1958)
• Life Hutch - (1956)
• The Sky Is Burning - (1958)
• Final Trophy - (1957)
• Blind Lightning - (1956)

Locus Award winning and Hugo, Nebula and Ditmar Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, March 1970. The story can also be found in the anthologies Five Fates (1970) and Afterlives (1986), edited by Pamela Sargent and Ian Watson. It is included in the collections Angry Candy (1988) and The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015).

Doomsman

THE MAN ESKALYO was a threat to the America State system.

THE YOUTH MONTOYA was abducted by the Seekers and taken to the School for Assassins. What better person could they find to kill Eskalya than his own son?

THE MAN MONTOYA began to doubt... doubt the system... the School... But he had been trained--brain-programmed-to kill! Sould Montoya strike the bloody blow that would kill the father he barely remembered?

Telepower

THE BOUNDARY

The soldiers protected the city--but could not enter it. they were not allowed past the boundary. They were apart--separate... bred only for battle. They were repulsive to the citizens they protected from daily menace.

Belsone was a soldier who began to experience a strange new feeling. Somone was in his mind, talking to him of the city... telling hom things none of the soldiers knew. But when the silent voice ceased cajoling, there was the command. Go to the city... Pass the Boundary.

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surprising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword 1-The Second Revolution - (1967) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Foreword 2-Harlan and I - (1967) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Thirty-Two Soothsayers - (1967) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Evensong - (1967) - shortstory by Lester del Rey
• Flies - (1967) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Day After the Day the Martians Came - (1967) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• The Malley System - (1967) - shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord
• A Toy for Juliette - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Night That All Time Broke Out - (1967) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice - (1967) - shortstory by Howard Rodman
• Faith of Our Fathers - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• The Jigsaw Man - (1967) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Gonna Roll the Bones - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Lord Randy, My Son - (1967) - shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
• Eutopia - (1967) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Incident in Moderan - (1967) - shortstory by David R. Bunch
• The Escaping - (1967) - shortstory by David R. Bunch
• The Doll-House - (1967) - shortstory by James Cross
• Sex and/or Mr. Morrison - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Shall the Dust Praise Thee? - (1967) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? - (1967) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• What Happened to Auguste Clarot? - (1967) - shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
• Ersatz - (1967) - shortstory by Henry Slesar
• Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird - (1967) - shortstory by Sonya Dorman
• The Happy Breed - shortstory by John Sladek
• Encounter with a Hick - (1967) - shortstory by Jonathan Brand
• From the Government Printing Office - (1967) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• Land of the Great Horses - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Recognition - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Judas - (1967) - shortstory by John Brunner
• Test to Destruction - (1967) - novelette by Keith Laumer
• Carcinoma Angels - (1967) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Auto-da-Fé - (1967) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• Aye, and Gomorrah... - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry / Ross Rocklynne / Ursula K. Le Guin / Andrew J. Offutt / Gene Wolfe / Ray Nelson / Ray Bradbury / Chad Oliver / Edward Bryant / Kate Wilhelm / James B. Hemesath / Joanna Russ / Kurt Vonnegut / T. L. Sherred / K. M. O'Donnell (Barry N. Malzberg) / H. H. Hollis / Bernard Wolfe / David Gerrold / Piers Anthony / Lee Hoffman / Gahan Wilson / Joan Bernott / Gregory Benford / Evelyn Lief / James Sallis / Josephine Saxton / Ken McCullough / David Kerr / Burt K. Filer / Richard Hill / Leonard Tushnet / Ben Bova / Dean R. Koontz / James Blish and Judith Ann Lawrence / A. Parra (y Figueredo) / Thomas M. Disch / Richard A. Lupoff / M. John Harrison / Robin Scott / Andrew Weiner / Terry Carr / James Tiptree, Jr.

Table of Contents:

• An Assault of New Dreamers - (1972) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Counterpoint of View - (1972) - shortstory by John Heidenry
• Ching Witch! - (1972) - shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
• The Word for World Is Forest - (1972) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• For Value Received - (1972) - shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
• Mathoms from the Time Closet - (1972) - shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
• Robot's Story - (1972) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Against the Lafayette Escadrille - (1972) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Loco Parentis - (1972) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Time Travel for Pedestrians - (1972) - shortstory by Ray Nelson
• Christ, Old Student in a New School - (1972) - poem by Ray Bradbury
• King of the Hill - (1972) - shortstory by Chad Oliver
• The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By... - (1972) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• The Funeral - (1972) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
• Harry the Hare - (1972) - shortstory by James B. Hemesath
• When It Changed - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Big Space Fuck - (1972) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Bounty - (1972) - shortstory by T. L. Sherred
• Still-Life - (1972) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Stoned Counsel - (1972) - shortstory by H. H. Hollis
• Monitored Dreams and Strategic Cremations - (1972) - shortfiction by Bernard Wolfe
• The Bisquit Position - (1972) - shortstory by Bernard Wolfe
• The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements - (1972) - shortstory by Bernard Wolfe
• With a Finger in My I - (1972) - shortstory by David Gerrold
• In the Barn - (1972) - novelette by Piers Anthony
• Soundless Evening - (1972) - shortstory by Lee Hoffman
• * - (1972) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward - (1972) - shortstory by Joan Bernott
• And the Sea Like Mirrors - (1972) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Bed Sheets Are White - (1972) - shortstory by Evelyn Lief
• Tissue - (1972) - shortfiction by James Sallis
• Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon - (1972) - shortstory by Josephine Saxton
• Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home? - (1972) - shortstory by Ken McCullough
• Epiphany for Aliens - (1972) - shortstory by David Kerr
• Eye of the Beholder - (1972) - shortstory by Burt K. Filer
• Moth Race - (1972) - shortstory by Richard Hill
• In re Glover - (1972) - shortstory by Leonard Tushnet
• Zero Gee - (1972) - novelette by Ben Bova
• A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village - (1972) - shortstory by Dean R. Koontz
• Getting Along - (1972) - novelette by James Blish and J. A. Lawrence
• Totenbüch - (1972) - shortstory by Parra y Figuéredo
• Things Lost - (1972) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama - (1972) - novella by Richard A. Lupoff
• Lamia Mutable - (1972) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• Last Train to Kankakee - (1972) - shortstory by Robin Scott Wilson
• Empire of the Sun - (1972) - shortstory by Andrew Weiner
• Ozymandias - (1972) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• The Milk of Paradise - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Ed Emshwiller - (1972) - essay by Anonymous

The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison 'The City on the Edge of Forever' has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version-which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history.

In its original form, 'The City on the Edge of Forever' won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for best teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award (the only teleplay ever to do so!). 'The City on the Edge of Forever' is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the reader on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future, all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe-or his one true love.

This edition makes available this astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay (expanded by 15,000 words from the limited edition) reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?

Run For The Stars:

The Kyben demolished Deald's World and their armada was heading for Earth. All that stood in their way was a man on Deald's World named Benno Tallant, about as lousy a candidate for hero as one could imagine: junkie, looter, coward, betrayer. The retreating Earth forces decide to make him the last man on Deald's World. They surgically implant a cataclysmic bomb in his body, turn him loose, and let the Kyben hunt him down.

See Benno Run. Run, Benno, Run Like Hell.

Echoes of Thunder:

No man, Mohawk or white, walks the high steel like John Stranger.

Harlan Ellison introduced you to Vic and Blood in 1969's Nebula Award-winning novella, "A Boy and His Dog." You thrilled to their on-screen adventures in the 1975 Hugo Award-winning feature film adaptation billed as "a kinky tale of survival." 1977 and 1980 brought brief reunions in "Eggsucker" and "Run, Spot, Run," and the promise of another story--and a third solo, Spike, to make the Dystopian Duo a Tribulation Trio--but only audiobooks and comics followed, revisiting the same tales.

Now, nearly fifty years after they first set off across the blasted wasteland, Vic and Blood are back.

Harlan Ellison and his editor, Jason Davis, have painstakingly assembled the whole story of Vic and Blood and Spike from the author's files, using revised-and-expanded versions of the novella and short stories, interstitial material developed for Richard Corben's graphic adaptation, and--for the first time--never-before-published material from the aborted 1977 NBC television series Blood's a Rover to tell the complete story of A Boy and His Dog, and a Girl who is tougher than the other two combined.

And let's not forget... the wit and wisdom of Blood.

Table of Contents:

• "A Boy and His Dog" to Blood's a Rover: Nearly Fifty Years in the Post-Apocalyptic Wastes" essay by Jason Davis
• "Letter for Harlan Ellison, June 2, 1980" essay by Chad Oliver
• "From the History of the World as Blood Tells It" short fiction
• "Eggsucker" (1977) short story
• "A Boy and His Dog" (1969) novella
• "Run, Spot, Run" (1980) short story
• "Blood's a Rover short fiction
• Chronology of Books 1958 - 2018

Hugo and Nebula Winner Harlan Ellison's classic post-apocalyptic saga The cycle beings with "Eggsucker," which chronicles the early years of the association between fourtenn-year-old loner Vic and his brilliant, telepathic dog, Blood. The saga continues and expands in "A Boy and His Dog," in which Blood shows just how much smarter he is than Vic, and Vic shows how loyal he can be. The story expands further in "Run, Spot, Run," the first part of Ellison's promised novel of the cycle, Blood's A Rover. Here Vic and Blood find surprising new ways to get into trouble-but getting out of it may be beyond even their combined talents.

Table of Contents

• "A Boy and His Dog" (1969) novella
• "Eggsucker" (1977) short story
• "Run, Spot, Run" (1980) short story

Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in New Worlds,#189 April 1969. Most subsequent publications include an expanded edition of the original. The story can be found in the anthologies:

• World's Best Science Fiction: 1970, edited by Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
• Nebula Award Stories Five (1970), edited by James Blish
• As Tomorrow Becomes Today (1974) edited by Charles W. Sullivan
• They Came from Outer Space (1981) edited by Jim Wynorski
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
• Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead (1985) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Dogtales! (1988) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova

It is included in the collections:

• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)
• The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (1987)
• Vic and Blood (2009)
• The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2015)