Threshold

Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan.

The first in a six-volume series, Volume 1: Threshold contains all of Zelazny's short works from his early years through the mid 1960s — a period of experimentation and growth that flowered into gems such as "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," "The Graveyard Heart," "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth," and "He Who Shapes." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Contents:

Intros

• Out of Nowhere (by Robert Silverberg)
• Before Amber (by Carl B. Yoke)

Stories

• A Rose for Ecclesiastes
• And the Darkness Is Harsh
• Mr. Fuller's Revolt
• Youth Eternal
• The Outward Sign
• Passion Play
• The Graveyard Heart
• Horseman!
• The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire
• Moonless in Byzantium
• On the Road to Splenoba
• Final Dining
• The Borgia Hand
• Nine Starships Waiting
• Circe Has Her Problems
• The Malatesta Collection
• The Stainless Steel Leech as by Harrison Denmark
• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
• A Thing of Terrible Beauty as by Harrison Denmark
• Monologue for Two as by Harrison Denmark
• Threshold of the Prophet
• A Museum Piece
• Mine Is the Kingdom as by Harrison Denmark
• King Solomon's Ring
• The Misfit
• The Great Slow Kings
• Collector's Fever
• The Night Has 999 Eyes
• He Who Shapes

Articles

• Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike
• "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1

Curiosities

• Conditional Benefit
• Hand of the Master
• The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay
• Studies in Saviory

Poetry

• Braxa
• Ecclesiastes' Epilogue
• Bok
• Diet
• Slush, Slush, Slush
• The Agnostic's Prayer
• On May 13, 1937
• The Cactus King
• Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It
• In the Dogged House
• Future, Be Not Impatient
• Flight
• Sense and Sensibility
• The World of Stat's a Drunken Bat
• The Cat Licks Her Coat
• From a Seat in the Chill Park
• Rodin's "The Kiss"
• To His Morbid Mistress
• Old Ohio Folkrag
• How a Poem Means
• Concert
• Iceage
• Hart Crane...
• Southern Cross
• I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right
• Hybris, or The Danger of Hilltops
• St. Secaire's
• In Pheleney's Garage
• The Black Boy's Reply to William Butler Yeats
• Rite of Spring
• Decade Plus One of Roses
• See You Later, Maybe...