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Harlan Ellison Bibliography


Novels and novellas

Web of the City (1958) (originally published as Rumble) 

The Man with Nine Lives (1960) (as this novel has never been reprinted there is no edition in existence bearing the author's preferred title - The Sound of a Scythe) 

Spider Kiss (1961) (originally published as Rockabilly) 

Doomsman (1967) 

"A Boy and his Dog" (1969) (made into a film) 

The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes (1975) (adaptation by Edward Bryant of Ellison's TV pilot script) 

All the Lies That are My Life (1980) (later included in the author's 1980 collection Shatterday) 

Run for the Stars (1991) (a 1957 novella here republished in a preferred text edition as part of a Tor Double) 

Mefisto in Onyx (1993) (later included in the author's 1997 collection Slippage) 



Short story collections

A Touch of Infinity (1958) 

The Deadly Streets (1958) 

Sex Gang (1959) (as by Paul Merchant) 

Children of the Streets (1961) (originally published as The Juvies) 

Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961) 

Ellison Wonderland (1962) (also published as Earthman, Go Home!) Ellison also refers to his home in Sherman Oaks, California as "Ellison Wonderland." 

Paingod and Other Delusions (1965) 

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) 

From the Land of Fear (1967) 

Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) 

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) 

Over the Edge (1970) 

Partners in Wonder (1971) (collaborations with 14 other writers) 

Approaching Oblivion (1974) 

Deathbird Stories (1975) 

No Doors, No Windows (1975) 

Strange Wine (1978) 

Shatterday (1980) 

Stalking the Nightmare (1982) 

Angry Candy (1988) 

Mind Fields (1994) (33 stories inspired by the art of Jacek Yerka) 

Slippage (1997) 

Troublemakers (2001) (collection produced for the Young Adult market and featuring, for the most part, previously collected material) 



Retrospectives and omnibus collections



Alone Against Tomorrow: a 10-Year Survey (1971) (published in the UK in two volumes as All the Sounds of Fear (1973) and The Time of the Eye (1974)) 

The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979) (contains Paingod and Other Delusions (1965) and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)) 

The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective (1987) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Rick Berry) 

Dreams With Sharp Teeth (1991) (contains I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967), Deathbird Stories (1975) and Shatterday (1980)) 

Edgeworks. 1 (1996) (contains Over the Edge (1970) and An Edge in My Voice (1985)) 

Edgeworks. 2 (1996) (contains Spider Kiss (1961) and Stalking the Nightmare (1982)) 

Edgeworks. 3 (1997) (contains The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) and Harlan Ellison's Movie (1990)) 

Edgeworks. 4 (1997) (contains Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)) 

The Essential Ellison



Nonfiction



Memos from Purgatory (1961) 

The Glass Teat (1970) (essays of opinion on television, 1968-1970) 

The Other Glass Teat (1975) (further essays of opinion on television, 1970-1972) 

The Book of Ellison (1978) (edited by Andrew Porter) 

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (1984) (edited by Marty Clark) 

An Edge in My Voice (1985) 

Harlan Ellison's Watching (1989) 

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) 



Published screenplays and teleplays



I, Robot (1994) (with Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Mark Zug) 

The City on the Edge of Forever (1996) (Star Trek episode, original screenplay, with commentary. 

Harlan Ellison's Movie (1990) 

Flintlock (1987) (unproduced pilot teleplay for a proposed 1972 TV series) 

The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1975) (teleplay produced in the TV series The Young Lawyers) 

The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (unfinished screenplay based on Ellison's 1974 short story of the same title) 





Anthologies edited



Dangerous Visions (1967) (also issued as a three-volume paperback edition) 

Nightshade and Damnations: the finest stories of Gerald Kersh (1968) 

Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) (also issued as a two-volume paperback edition) 

Medea: Harlan's World (1985) 



Selected short stories



"A Boy and His Dog" 

"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" 

"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" 

"The Deathbird" 

"The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel" 

"From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" 

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Made into CD-ROM Game, circa 1995-97 

"Jeffty Is Five" 

"Knox" 

"The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" 

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman 

"Shatterday" - adapted as an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone 

"Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" 

"Soldier": filmed as an Outer Limits episode. 

"Try a Dull Knife" 

"The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" 

"The Dragon on the Bookshelf" 

"Grail"