Harlan Ellison
1934 -

Harlan Ellison is an author, essayist, commentator, actor, activist, and quite possibly the most contentious man alive today. In over fifty years of writing, he has created over seventy books, ten screenplays, innumerable television scripts, and seventeen hundred short stories. The Washington Post called him "one of the greatest living American short story writers," and the Los Angeles Times anointed him with the title of "20th Century Lewis Carroll." This same man has made enemies of many producers and directors (walking out on television studios that change his scripts) and as rumor has it, was nearly punched by Frank Sinatra over his screenplay The Oscar. Despite some interesting stories, Ellison continues to be honored with awards from across the genres and is admired as an amazing writer.

Ellison holds the record as the only man to win the Writers Guild of America award for Most Outstanding Teleplay four times. Among his collection are eight Hugo awards for science fiction, two Edgar Allan Poe awards of the Mystery Writers of America, four Horror Writers Association awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award), and the Silver Pen for Journalism from P.E.N., the international writer's union. He has an end credit for "Inspiration" on John Cameron's Terminator trilogy.

Novels


The Man With Nine Lives
Ed Emshwiller

Doomsman

Phoenix Without Ashes
w/Edward Bryant

Night and the Enemy
w/Ken Steacy

Run for the Stars

The Man With Nine Lives
Doomsman

Phoenix Without Ashes
Novel of The Starlost tv series adapted from the award-winning screenplay by Harlan Ellison. 2785 A.D.: banished from the world of Cypress Corners for challenging the Elders, Devon stumbles on a secret passage in the hills. He had discovered the giant ark that was ferrying not only Cypress Corners but all the other Earth cultures to another planet. What he didn't know was there had been a terrible accident aboard the spaceship. The gear had been damaged, the crew was dead. And the ark and all its worlds were now headed straight for destruction.
Night and the Enemy w/Ken Steacy
Run for the Stars
The Kyben demolished Deald's World and their armada was heading for the 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. So the retreating Earth forces made him the last man on Deald's World. They surgically implanted a cataclysmic bomb in his body, turned him loose, and let the Kyben hunt him down.


Collections


The Deadly Streets
Barclay Shaw

A Touch of Infinity
Ed Valigursky

Ellison In Wonderland
Bob Pepper

Paingod and other Delusions
Barclay Shaw

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Barclay Shaw

From the Land of Fear
Leo & Diane Dillon

Love Ain't Nothin' But Sex Misspelled
Barclay Shaw

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Bob Pepper

Over the Edge
Leo & Diane Dillon

Alone Against Tomorrow
Brad Johannsen

Approaching Oblivion
Barclay Shaw

Deathbird Stories
Leo & Diane Dillon

Strange Wine
Leo & Diane Dillon

Illustrated Harlan Ellison
Don Ivan Punchatz

Shatterday
Peter Goodfellow

Stalking the Nightmare
Jane MacKenzie

Angry Candy

Mind Fields : The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison
Jacek Yerka

The Deadly Streets
Rat Hater
I’ll Bet You a Death
We Take Care of Our Dead
The Man with the Golden Tongue
Johnny Slice’s Stoolie
Joy Ride
Buy Me That Blade
The Hippie-Slayer
Kid Killer
With a Knife in Her Hand
Sob Story w/ Henry Slesar
Look Me in the Eye, Boy!
The Dead Shot
Ship-Shape Pay-Off w/ Robert Silverberg
Made in Heaven
Students of the Assassin

A Touch of Infinity
Run for the Stars
Back to the Drawing Boards
Life Hutch
The Sky is Burning
Final Trophy
Blind Lightning

Ellison In Wonderland
Hadj
     Rain, Rain, Go Away
     The Silver Corridor
     Gnomebody
     Commuter's Problem
     The Sky Is Burning
     The Wind Beyond the Mountains
     Mealtime
     Back to the Drawing Boards
     The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
     Nothing for My Noon Meal
     Battlefield
     In Lonely Lands
     Deal from the Bottom
     Do-It-Yourself w/ Joe L. Hensley
     All the Sounds of Fear

Paingod and other Delusions
Spero Meliora
Paingod
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
The Crackpots
Sleeping Dogs
Bright Eyes
The Discarded
Wanted in Surgery
Deeper Than the Darkness

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Echoes of Screams
How Science Fiction Saved Me from a Life of Crime
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Big Sam Was My Friend
Eyes of Dust
World of the Myth
Lonelyache
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes

From the Land of Fear
Moth on the Moon
Snake in the Mind
The Sky is Burning
My Brother Paulie
The Time of the Eye
Life Hutch
Battle Without Banners
Back to the Drawing Boards
A Friend to Man
We Mourn for Anyone
The Voice in the Garden
Soldier, Soldier (film script)
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
S.R.O.
 The Waves in Rio
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Along the Scenic Route
Phoenix
Asleep: With Still Hands
Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.
Try a Dull Knife
The Pitll Pawob Division
The Place with No Name, White on White
Run for the Stars
Are You Listening?
Worlds to Kill
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
 A Boy and His Dog
Over the Edge
Brinkmanship
Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes
Final Trophy
!!!The!!!Teddy!!!Crazy!!!Show!!!
Ernest and the Machine God
Tiny Ally
The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
Blind Lightning
3 Faces of Fear
Blank . . .
Night Vigil
Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center
Rock God

Alone Against Tomorrow
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
The Discarded
Deeper Than the Darkness
Blind Lightning
All the Sounds of Fear
The Silver Corridor
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
Bright Eyes
Are You Listening?
 Try a Dull Knife
In Lonely Lands
Eyes of Dust
Nothing for My Noon Meal
O Ye of Little Faith
The Time of the Eye
Life Hutch
The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
Night Vigil
Lonelyache
Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes

Approaching Oblivion
Catman
Cold Friend
Ecowareness
Erotophobia
Hindsight: 480 Seconds
I'm Looking for Kadak
Introduction: Reaping the Whirlwind (Approaching Oblivion)
Kiss of Fire
Knox
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman
Silent in Gehenna

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

Strange Wine
Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself
Croatoan
Working With the Little People
Killing Bernstein
 Mom
In Fear of K
Hitler Painted Roses
The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat
From A to Z, In the Chocolate Alphabet
Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time
Emissary from Hamelin
 The New York Review of Bird
Seeing
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Strange Wine
The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel

Illustrated Harlan
"Repent Harlequin" said the Ticktockman. (illustrated by Steranko)
Riding the Dark train, (illustrated by Ralph Reese)
The Discarded, (illustrated by Thomas Sutton)
Deeper than the Darkness, (illustrated by Wayne McLoughlin)
Shattered Like A Glass Goblin, (illustrated by William Stout)
An Ellison Tapestry, (illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon)
I'm Looking for Kadak, (illustrated by Overton Loyd)
Shatterday
Introduction: Mortal Dreads (Shatterday)
Jeffty Is Five
How's the Night Life on Cissalda?
Flop Sweat
Would You Do It for a Penny?
The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge
Shoppe Keeper
All the Lies That Are My Life
Django
Count the Clock That Tells the Time
In the Fourth Year of the War
Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage
All the Birds Come Home to Roost
Opium
The Other Eye of Polyphemus
The Executioner of the Malformed Children
Shatterday

Stalking the Nightmare
Foreword (Stalking the Nightmare)
Introduction: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells
Grail
The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists
 Blank . . .
The 3 Most Important Things in Life
 Visionary w/ Joe L. Hensley
Djinn, No Chaser
 Invasion Footnote
Saturn, November 11th
Night of Black Glass
Final Trophy
!!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!!
The Cheese Stands Alone
Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto
Transcending Destiny
The Hour That Stretches
The Day I Died
Tracking Level
Tiny Ally
The Goddess in the Ice
Gopher in the Gilly

Angry Candy
Introduction: The Wind Took Your Answer Away (Angry Candy)
Design And Graphics, The Region Between ( Angry Candy), interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
Paladin of the Lost Hour
Footsteps
Escapegoat
When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot
Broken Glass
On the Slab
Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish
The Region Between
Laugh Track
Eidolons
Soft Monkey
Stuffing
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole
Quicktime
The Avenger of Death
Chained to the Fast Lane in the Red Queen's Race
The Function of Dream Sleep

Mind Fields : The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison

Anthologies


Partners in Wonder
Barclay Shaw

Medea:  Harlan's World
Frank Kelly Freas

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

Medea:  Harlan's World
Introduction: Cosmic Hod-Carriers,  Harlan Ellison
Introduction: The Specs, Harlan Ellison
Basic Concepts: Astrophysics, Geology, Hal Clement
Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Geography, Nomenclature, Biology,  Poul Anderson
 Biology, Ecology, Xenology, Larry Niven
Xenology, Sociology, Politics, Theology, Mathematics, Frederik Pohl
The Concept Seminar, Robert Silverberg, Frank Herbert, Thomas M. Disch, Harlan Ellison & Theodore Sturgeon
The Extrapolation, the Questions
Second Thoughts, Larry Niven, Thomas M. Disch, Hal Clement, Frederik Pohl & Poul Anderson
Farside Station, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Farside Station, Jack Williamson
Flare Time, Larry Niven
Flare Time, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
With Virgil Odom At the East Pole, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole, Harlan Ellison
Swanilda's Song, Frederik Pohl
With Virgil Odom At the East Pole, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Swanilda's Song, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Seasoning, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Seasoning, Hal Clement
Concepts, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Concepts, Thomas M. Disch
Songs of a Sentient Flute, Frank Herbert
Songs of a Sentient Flute, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Hunter's Moon, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Hunter's Moon, Poul Anderson
The Promise, Kate Wilhelm
The Promise, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Why Dolphins Don't Bite, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas
Why Dolphins Don't Bite, Theodore Sturgeon
Waiting for the Earthquake, Robert Silverberg
Waiting for the Earthquake, artwork by Kelly Frank Freas



Edgeworks


Edgeworks 1
Jill Bauman

Edgeworks 2
John K Snyder III

Edgeworks 3
Jill Bauman

Edgeworks 4
John K Snyder III

Edgeworks 1
Introduction: Good Morning, Folks; I am not Kathie Lee Gifford, essay by Harlan Ellison
Foreword: The Frontiers of Edgeville  essay by Norman Spinrad
Introduction: Brinksmanship, essay by Harlan Ellison
Over the Edge
An Edge in My Voice

Edgeworks 2
Introduction: Let's Pretend, essay by Harlan Ellison
Foreword (Stalking the Nightmare), essay by Stephen King
Introduction: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells , essay by Harlan Ellison
Spider Kiss
Stalking the Nightmare
Edgeworks 3
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook, by Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison's Movie, shortfiction by Harlan Ellison

Edgeworks 4
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World


Anthology Series


Dangerous Visions Vol I
Fred Gambino

Dangerous Visions Vol II

Dangerous Visions Vol III

Again, Dangerous Visions Vol I
Angus McKie
Pan, 1977

Again, Dangerous Visions Vol II
Angus McKie
Pan, 1977

Dangerous Visions Vol I
Dangerous Visions 1, interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon
Foreword 1-The Second Revolution, essay by Isaac Asimov
Foreword 2-Harlan and I, essay by Isaac Asimov
Introduction: Thirty-two Soothsayers, essay by Harlan Ellison
Evensong, shortstory by Lester del Rey
Flies, shortstory by Robert Silverberg
The Day After the Day the Martians Came, shortstory by Frederik Pohl
Riders of the Purple Wage, novella by Philip José Farmer
The Malley System, 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, shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
Dangerous Visions Vol II
Dangerous Visions 2, interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon

New Introduction, essay by Harlan Ellison
The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice, shortstory by Howard Rodman
Faith of Our Fathers, novelette by Philip K. Dick
The Jigsaw Man, shortstory by Larry Niven
Gonna Roll the Bones, novelette by Fritz Leiber
Lord Randy, My Son, shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
Eutopia, novelette by Poul Anderson
Incident in Moderan, shortstory by David R. Bunch
The Escaping, shortstory by David R. Bunch
The Doll-House, shortstory by James Cross
Sex and/or Mr. Morrison, shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
Shall the Dust Praise Thee? shortstory by Damon Knight

Dangerous Visions Vol III
Dangerous Visions 3, interior artwork by Diane Dillon
and Leo Dillon
New Introduction, essay by Harlan Ellison
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
What Happened to Auguste Clarot? shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
Ersatz, shortstory by Henry Slesar
Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird, shortstory by Sonya Dorman
The Happy Breed, shortstory by John Sladek [as by John T. Sladek ]
Encounter with a Hick, shortstory by Jonathan Brand
From the Government Printing Office, shortstory by Kris Neville
Land of the Great Horses, shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Recognition, shortstory by J. G. Ballard
Judas, shortstory by John Brunner
Test to Destruction, novelette by Keith Laumer
Carcinoma Angels, shortstory by Norman Spinrad
Auto-Da-Fé, shortstory by Roger Zelazny
Aye, and Gomorrah. . . shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

Again, Dangerous Visoins Vol I
An Assault of New Dreamers, essay by Harlan Ellison

Again, Dangerous Visions, interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller
The Counterpoint of View, essay by John Heidenry
Ching Witch!  shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
The Word for World Is Forest, novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
For Value Received, shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
Mathoms from the Time Closet, shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
Time Travel for Pedestrians, shortstory by Ray Nelson
Christ, Old Student in a New School, poem by Ray Bradbury
King of the Hil, shortstory by Chad Oliver
 The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By . . .  shortstory by Edward Bryant
The Funeral, novelette by Kate Wilhelm
Harry the Hare, shortstory by James B. Hemesath
When It Changed, shortstory by Joanna Russ
 The Big Space Fuck, shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Bounty, shortstory by T. L. Sherred
Still-Life, shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell ]
Stoned Counsel, shortstory by H. H. Hollis
Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations, shortfiction by Bernard Wolfe
With a Finger in My I, shortstory by David Gerrold
In the Barn, novelette by Piers Anthony

Again, Dangerous Visions Vol II
Again, Dangerous Visions, interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller
Ed Emshwiller, essay by uncredited
An Assault of New Dreamers, essay by Harlan Ellison
With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama, novella by Richard A. Lupoff
Soundless Evening, shortstory by Lee Hoffman
The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward, shortstory by Joan Bernott
And the Sea Like Mirrors, shortstory by Gregory Benford
Bed Sheets Are White, shortstory by Evelyn Lief
Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon, shortstory by Josephine Saxton
Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home? shortstory by Ken McCullough
(Title is represented by a blob of ink), shortstory by Gahan Wilson
Epiphany for Aliens, shortstory by David Kerr
Eye of the Beholder, shortstory by Burt K. Filer
Moth Race, shortstory by Richard Hill
Zero Gee, novelette by Ben Bova
A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village, shortstory by Dean R. Koontz
Getting Along, novelette by James Blish and J. A. Lawrence
Totenbüch, shortstory by Parra y Figuéredo
Things Lost, shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
Lamia Mutable, shortstory by M. John Harrison
Last Train to Kankakee, shortstory by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin Scott ]
Empire of the Sun, shortstory by Andrew Weiner
Ozymandias, shortstory by Terry Carr
The Milk of Paradise, shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
In re Glover, shortstory by Leonard Tushnet
Tissue, shortfiction by James Sallis
 


Non Fiction


Memos From Pergatory
Barclay Shaw

The Glass Teat
Barclay Shaw

The Other Glass Teat
Barclay Shaw

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
David Reneric

Memos From Pergatory
The Glass Teat
The Other Glass Teat
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed


Non Genre


Web of the City
Barclay Shaw

Sex Gang

Gentleman Junkie
Barclay Shaw

Juvies/Children of the Streets

Rockabilly/Spider's Kiss
Barclay Shaw

No Doors, No Windows
Barclay Shaw

Web of the City
In 1957, Harlan Ellison gave himself a pseudonym and joined a Brooklyn street gang called the Barons. He used his experiences to write this book.
Sex Gang
Sex Gang
The Girl with the Horizontal Mind
Wanted: Two Trollops
The Ugly Virgin
The Silence of Infidelity
The Pied Piper of Sex
  Bayou Sex Cat
  The Lady Had Zilch
Girl with the Bedroom Eyes
The Lustful One
Bohemia for Christie

 
Gentleman Junkie
Final Shtick
Gentleman Junkie
May We Also Speak?
Daniel White for the Greater Good
Lady Bug, Lady Bug
Free With This Box!
There's One on Every Campus
At the Mountains of Blindness
This Is Jackie Spinning
No Game for Children
The Late, Great Arnie Draper
High Dice
Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center
Someone Is Hungrier
Memory of a Muted Trumpet
Turnpike
Sally in Our Alley
The Silence of Infidelity
Have Coolth (1959)
RFD #2 wi/ Henry Slesar
No Fourth Commandment
The Night of Delicate Terrors

Juvies/Children of the Streets
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.
Rockabilly/Spider's Kiss
If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville with a voice like an angel and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell.
No Doors, No Windows
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
Eddie, You're My Friend
Status Quo at Troyden's
Nedra at f:5.6
Opposites Attract
Toe the Line
Down in the Dark
Pride in the Profession+
The Children's Hour
White Trash Don't Exist
Thicker Than Blood
Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column
Promises of Laughter
Ormond Always Pays His Bills
The Man on the Juice Wagon
Tired Old Man

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