The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective

by Harlan Ellison
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A collection of stories.

Contents:

  • Prolegemenon: Millennial Musings (2001 edition)
  • Introduction: Sublime Rebel (by Terry Dowling)
  • Lagniappe (by Terry Dowling) (2001 edition)
  • Beginnings
    • The Sword of Parmagon
    • The Gloconda
    • The Wilder One
    • The Saga of Machine Gun Joe
    • Introduction to Glowworm (2001 edition)
    • Glowworm
    • Life Hutch
    • S.R.O.
  • Worlds of Terror
    • Lonelyache
    • Punky & the Yale Men
    • A Prayer for No One's Enemy
    • Pulling Hard Time (2001 edition)
  • Worlds of Love
    • In Lonely Lands
    • The Time of the Eye
    • Grail
  • That New Old-Time Religion
    • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
    • Corpse
    • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
  • A Stab of Merriment
    • The Voice in the Garden
    • Erotophobia
    • Mom
    • Ecowareness
    • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists
    • Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept.
    • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept.
    • Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish (2001 edition)
  • Trouble with Women
    • The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
    • Valerie: A True Memoir
    • The Other Eye of Polyphemus
    • All the Birds Come Home to Roost
  • To the Mattresses with Mean Demons
    • The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory
    • "Our Little Miss"
    • A Love Song for Jerry Falwell
    • Telltale Tics and Tremors
    • True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail
    • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W
    • The Function of Dream Sleep (2001 edition)
  • Rococo Technology
    • The Sky is Burning
    • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
    • Along the Scenic Route
    • The Song the Zombie Sang (with Robert Silverberg)
    • Knox
    • With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (2001 edition)
  • Heart's Blood
    • From Alabamy, with Hate
    • My Father
    • My Mother
    • Tired Old Man
    • Gopher in the Gilly
    • Strange Wine
  • Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird
    • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie
    • Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay
    • The Man on the Mushroom
    • Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto
    • Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool
  • Petards & Hangings
    • Soldier
    • The Night of Delicate Terrors
    • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
    • At the Mouse Circus
  • Shadows from the Past
    • Free with This Box!
    • Final Shtick
    • One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
    • Jeffty is Five
  • Contracts on the Soul
    • Daniel White for the Greater Good
    • Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine
    • Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage
  • The Classics
    • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
    • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
    • A Boy and His Dog
    • The Deathbird
    • Paladin of the Lost Hour (2001 edition)
    • Soft Monkey (2001 edition)
    • Mefisto in Onyx (2001 edition)
  • Process (2001 edition)
    • Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (2001 edition)
    • The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (2001 edition)
    • Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2001 edition)
    • Man on Spikes (2001 edition)
    • Introduction to "Tired Old Man" (2001 edition)
    • The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (2001 edition)
  • Dark Liberation
    • The Thick Red Moment
    • The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
    • Driving In the Spikes
    • An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55 (2001 edition)
    • The Streets, Installment 1 (2001 edition)
    • Xenogensis (2001 edition)
  • Afterword


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Release date 1987
Details updated August 31, 2022
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