Harlan Ellison

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  • Bibliography:
    78 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1958
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 78 titles

  • Web of the City

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    In 1957 in New York City, Harlan Ellison gave him-self a pseudonym and joined a Brooklyn street gang called the Barons. This is the story of what happened. You might think that the most important character of the novel would be Harlan Ellison, but yo...

  • The Juvies

  • Ellison Wonderland

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    Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wideranging imagination, fe...

  • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of he World

    in Dangerous Visions #1

  • Try a Dull Knife

    in Blood is Not Enough

    In this stunning new collection, GAHAN WILSON invites two hungry strangers to a beach party. One sports a grin, the other a saw... TANITH LEE invokes a dreadful demon in the mind of a love-starved woman ... JOE HALDEMAN carves a chilling verse of ter...

  • The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

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    Fifteen masterpieces of speculative short fiction, including Hugo and Nebula Award–winning stories from the acclaimed author of Shatterday.
     
    “These are not stories that should be forgotten; and some of you are ab...

  • Partners In Wonder

    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....

  • Again, Dangerous Visions

    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 Wol...

  • Dangerous Visions

    The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published featuring the works of such luminaries as: Isaac Asimov * Robert Silverberg * Philip Jos, Farmer * Robert Bloch * Philip K. Dick * Larry Niven * Fritz Leiber * Poul Anderson * Damon Knigh...



  • No Doors, No Windows

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    Tired of the everyday grind? Got a lousy tension head-ache? Having crazy thoughts about tossing your boss out a window, feeding your old man through the blender, bricking up your wife in the basement? Need an escape before you do something nasty? Her...

  • Deathbird Stories

    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...

  • Phoenix Without Ashes

    Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel Phoenix Without Ashes.
    The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging h...

  • Paingod and Other Delusions

    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 read...

  • Alone Against Tomorrow

  • Approaching Oblivion

    Signet / New American Library, 1976. 1st printing, paperback. This collection of stories was first published in 1974. Foreward by Michael Chrichton, Introductions by the author, and these stories: Catman (1974); Cold Friend (1973); Ecowareness (1974)...

  • Shatterday

    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 liter...

  • Gentleman Junkie: And Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation

    Raw, vital, uncompromising--here are portraits of the lost, the damned, the helpless, trying to get a handle on life. A startling collection of 'hip' stories by an impressive young writer, torn from the shadows of the twilight world. ...

  • Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled

    Tales of love, sex, and relationships as only “one of the great . . . American short story writers” can tell them (The Washington Post Book World).
     
    A one-night stand begins a tragic journey that co...

  • The Glass Teat



  • The Other Glass Teat

    In the late 1960s, Harlan Ellison launched a weekly column for the Los Angeles Free Press, where he uncompromisingly discussed the effects of television on modern society. He assaulted everything from television sitcoms to corrupt politicians, talk s...

  • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    A collection of stories written and read by the master of science fiction and the supernatural. Harlan Ellison has won more awards for imaginative literature than any other living author, but only aficionados of Ellison's singular work have been a...

  • The Deadly Streets

    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 is more than fifty years and two different worlds from ...

  • Memos from Purgatory

    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 switchblad...

  • Sleepless Night in the Procrustean Bed

  • Strange Wine

    Collection of prime Ellison stories, each with a substantial preface. Introduction: "Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself;"Croatoan (1975); Working With the Little People (1977); Killing Bernstein (1976...

  • Stalking The Nightmare

    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 create...

  • Medea: Harlan's World

  • An Edge in My Voice

    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 conditi...

  • Night and the Enemy



  • Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog

    Three stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of a boy and his telepathically linked dog—inspiration for the Fallout video games and Mad Max movies.

     The cycle begins with “Eggsucker,” which chronicles the ...

  • Angry Candy

  • The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

  • Run for the Stars // Echoes of Thunder

  • Spider Kiss

    From one of the most highly celebrated and dynamic American writers of our time, comes Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison''s electrifying novel of the early years of rock and roll.

    If you think the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction...

  • Mefisto in Onyx

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  • I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

    Numerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, Robot, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached multiple-award-winning author Harlan Ellison to take a crack at this impossible pro...

  • The City on the Edge of Forever

    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 subsequen...

  • Over the Edge: An Edge in My Voice

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    Over the Edge, a collection of twelve short stories and essays from Harlan Ellison, is a must-read for any fan of the wild abandon and laser focus of one of the century’s most brilliant authors. Complex, alluring, audacious, sublime -- it is not hy...

  • Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Quarterly

    Only fools try to outsmart tidal waves. No matter how worthy you imagine yourself to be, no matter how deeply you believe in your cause, Oscar Wilde was right when he observed, "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." We believed,...



  • Edgeworks 3: Harlan Ellison's Hornbook

  • Slippage

    With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book t...

  • Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman

    One of science fiction’s most antiestablishment authors rails against the accepted order while questioning blind obedience to the state in this unique pairing of short story and essay.   “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” is set...

  • Edgeworks: Spider Kiss: Stalking the Nightmare

  • Troublemakers

    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, Trouble...

  • Al Williamson Adventures

  • Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"

    This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as “The Thinking Machine,” is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who -- wit...

  • NPR's Hanukkah Lights: Stories of the Season

    This Hanukkah marks the fifteenth season of Hanukkah Lights: Stories of the Season, one of NPR's most popular holiday programs. The show has built a large and loyal following of listeners of all ages and all walks of life. Each year, Hanukkah Lights ...

  • Mind Fields

    Mind Fields was originally conceived as a collection of Jacek Yerka's paintings, but when Harlan Ellison was approached to write the introduction, he was so overcome that instead he penned a short story for each piece. The result of this synergistic ...

  • Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Volume 2

    Ever wonder what it would be like to walk into someone else's mind and have a look around? Well, what if that person happened to be a brilliant storyteller whose imagination has captivated millions of readers over the past five decades? In the award-...



  • 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...

  • From the Land of Fear

    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 ...

  • Harlan Ellison's Movie

    The republication of Harlan Ellison's Movie, the full-length feature film he created when a producer at 20th Century-Fox said to him, "If we gave you the money, and no interference, what sort of movie would you write?" Well, that producer is no longe...

  • The Phantom Chronicles Volume 2

    • High adventure and intrigue in the African jungle, on the high seas, and in the streets! There is always justice that needs to be served, whether it's in the present...or the past.
    • Since 1936, The Phantom has been thrilling audienc...

  • The Ultimate Werewolf

    Some of the world’s best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the classic legend of the werewolf. From Mel Gilden’s gripping fable of a small town with werewolf fever, to Nancy Collins’s tale of a young boy unaware of the e...

  • The Green Hornet Chronicles

    Moonstone presents The Green Hornet Chronicles, the first anthology featuring all-new, original fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game - public enemies that even the FBI can't reach! In police records, The Green Hornet is a wanted...

  • Bugf#ck

    "Harlan Ellison(TM) has a lot to say; as one of America''s most honored entertainers, he has been writing fiction and commentary, and speaking on college campuses and television talk shows, and challenging his audiences to think outside the bo...

  • Heart of the Atom

    Marvel's Hulk
    Marvel's Thor

    A legendary love that started small. The Hulk can find enemies anywhere, even on a sub-molecular level - but love long eluded him until his atom-shattering romance with Jarella! The tiniest of worlds offered him all that he ever desired - but when th...

  • Harlan Ellison's Watching

  • Fear the Abyss

  • Mammoth Books presents The Region Between

    "The Region Between" first appeared in Galaxy back in 1970. It had originally been commissioned as one of a set of stories by different authors who all used a common starting point as set out in the story's prologue, written by Keith Laumer. Ellison'...

  • Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos

    Harlan Ellison, science fiction's brightest luminary, has joined forces with multi-award winning artist Paul Chadwick, creator of the incomparable Concrete, to bring you SEVEN AGAINST CHAOS, a graphic novel that is singular, powerful and unpredictabl...

  • Harlan 101: Encountering Ellison

    Designed as both an introduction to Harlan Ellison's vast body of work and as a manual for would-be writers, Harlan 101 collects the best of the author's short fiction, seven essays on the craft of writing, and a collection of rarely seen oddities fr...

  • Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word

    Rediscover the Early Ellison. This collection restores to print fifteen never-collected tales from the first dozen years of his career. Hard-hitting crime stories like “Thrill Kill,” “Girl at Gunpoint,” “Kill Joy,” “Knife/Death” and ...

  • Rough Beasts

    This anthology assembles seventeen never-before-collected pulp stories from the 1950s.Includes -- for the first time since its original publication in the April 1957 issue of SUPER-SCIENCE FICTION -- "Invulnerable," which STEPHEN KING described as "....

  • The Sound of a Scythe

    For the first in over 50 years, Harlan Ellison's second novel returns to print in a substantially revised and expanded form. Also included are three of Ellison's best long-form stories.This 336-page paperback features:The Sound of a Scythe, Harlan El...

  • Li'l Harlan and his sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land

    In the words of the great one: "I have just received my first two (only 2, so don't ask me for one) copies of LI'L HARLAN AND HIS SIDEKICK CARL THE COMET IN DANGER LAND, a swell 20-something page chapbook from Edgeworks Abbey in associatio...

  • Gentleman Junkie

    Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison’s early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues...

  • Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever

    For the first time ever, a visual presentation of the much-discussed, unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellison’s award-winning Star Trek teleplay script, “The City on the Edge of Forever!” See the story as Mr. Ellison orig...

  • 8 in 80 by Ellison

    In honor of Harlan Ellison’s eightieth birthday, Susan Ellison -- his wife of thirty years, the Electric Baby -- has scoured raw eight (8) decades of his written output (from his 1949 serialized stories in The Cleveland News to as-yet unpublished t...

  • Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word

    You will not find “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” in this book. Nor will you find “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” “A Boy and His Dog,” or “The Deathbird,” or any of Harlan Ellison’s myriad masterpieces. What wi...

  • The Top of the Volcano

    ''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 s...

  • Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever

    For the first time ever, a visual presentation of the much-discussed, unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellison’s award-winning Star Trek The Original Series teleplay script, "The City on the Edge of Forever!" See the story as Mr. Ellison...

  • Can & Can'tankerous

    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 sh...

  • A Boy and His Dog

    Winner of the Nebula Award: A boy and his telepathic dog fight to survive in a war-torn, postapocalyptic world in this hard-hitting science fiction novella.   In an alternate world in which John F. Kennedy survived and scientific breakthroughs in an...

  • Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral

    This original audio collection, featuring much newly recorded material, is a stunning realization of some of the writer's best and edgiest work, as well as a fiery visit to some of his more secret stories. Contents include: 'Jeffty is Five' (Hugo ...

  • Blood's a Rover

    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 1...

  • Greatest Hits

    A collection of award-winning short stories, including the viral “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner. As one of the great w...

  • The Last Dangerous Visions

    An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final vol...

Award-Winning Books by Harlan Ellison

Angry Candy
1989 Locus Award -- Collection
1989 World Fantasy Award -- Collection
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
1969 Hugo Award -- Short Story
Mefisto in Onyx
1994 Bram Stoker Award -- Novella
1994 Locus Award -- Novella


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Harlan Ellison has published 78 books.

Harlan Ellison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Dangerous Visions, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Harlan Ellison, Web of the City, was published in January 1958.

No. Harlan Ellison does not write books in series.
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